RE: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues

[Rob Frankland <torobf@earthlink.net>]

Paula and JoAnn appear to have captured the most urgent issues for 1.1  JoAnn's addition of the the index issues is crucial.

-----Original Message-----
>From: JoAnn Hackos <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>
>Sent: Feb 16, 2006 6:49 AM
>To: Paul Prescod <paul.prescod@blastradius.com>, dita@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: RE: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues
>
>I completely agree with Paul's list. I would, however, add the index
>terms. I find the difficulties in developing indexes to be a major
>problem.
>JoAnn 
>
>
>JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
>President
>Comtech Services, Inc.
>710 Kipling Street, Suite 400
>Denver CO 80215
>303-232-7586
>joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul.prescod@blastradius.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:22 AM
>To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues
>
>During the meeting we discussed the idea of making a very short list of
>1.1 features to get an earlier update of DITA out the door. I was asked
>to be more concrete in my proposal along those lines. My proposal is
>based on the principle that features that users are already "hacking"
>should be high priority. Therefore, my list is:
>
>====
>
>#20 Extensible metadata attributes
>	* customers ask for it and the current situation is just not
>workable for many
>
>#38 Bookmap / bkinfo revision
>	* in widespread quasi-standard use already
>	* often requested by customers
>
>#35 Support foreign content vocabularies such as MathML and SVG
>	* MathML in particular is very popular, and has been hacked by
>XMetaL customers
>
>====
>
>I think that if we added a few more that I've missed, we could have a
>nice short list of urgent features that could be implemented by the
>summer instead of the end of the year or later. Bookmap is a meaty
>enough project to make a smaller 1.1 still substantial effort and
>substantial benefit.
>
> Paul Prescod
>
>