RE: [dita] Errata information added to home page

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

Hi Paul,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:50 PM
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [dita] Errata information added to home page
> 
[Mary: ] [stripped text]
> 
> If I understand, we could produce an "Errata" document (explaining
> that these are "resolved issues" but not yet official errata) and
> get that put at some reasonable URL on the OASIS site.  Then we
> could augment the content of that document (without changing its
> URL) as we find and resolve more issues.  Is that correct? 

[Mary: ] Yes. We could use something like
docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/errata/ and then have version-specific
filenames (dita-v1.1-errata-cd01) with a current version name of
dita-v1.1-errata or similar.

Who
> would have permission to augment that document?
 
 [Mary: ] The TC would maintain the document like any other. At each point a
new set of changes is approved the status would go from CD 01 to CD 02 (with
interim CD01 R01, R02, etc. until approval). Each time a new CD is created
send it to me and I'll upload (at least until the OASIS Library is at a
point where members can self-serve).

> 
> Something like that would seem to me to be most beneficial to
> our user and implementor community and most manageable by the TC.
> 

[Mary: ] +1

> paul
> 
> >
> >   I'm ready and willing to help - I just need to know exactly
> > how the TC
> > wants to proceed.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mary
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:42 PM
> > To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: RE: [dita] Errata information added to home page
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 2007 September 04 12:19
> > > To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> > > Subject: RE: [dita] Errata information added to home page
> > >
> > > "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com> wrote on 09/04/2007 12:11:57 PM:
> > > > However, it would be best to have a separate "Errata for DITA
> 1.1"
> > > > page that could be linked to from this location on our
> > main TC page.
> > >
> > > I agree - I asked Don about setting up another page at the
> > > TC, but it looks
> > > like the only way to add pages to the main Committee page is
> > > by uploading a
> > > document or by sending an email. In that case it won't really be a
> > > permanent Errata page. One alternative was to point to a page
> > > on our Wiki,
> > > but (to me) that seemed rather too unofficial. If somebody
> > > has a suggestion
> > > of how to get a more official looking errata page at the TC,
> > > please speak
> > > up... alternatively, if others think a wiki page is
> > > appropriate, we could just do that.
> >
> > <rant>The OASIS Kavi system has many disadvantages, and some of
> > us have been complaining about them for years.  Unfortunately,
> > either we are in the minority or we have been ignored.  The
> > problems, such as this, remain.  We still don't really have
> > a web site, just a web-dispensed data base.  I hate it.</rant>
> >
> > Maybe Mary can suggest a way we can have a real Errata page
> > to which we can point and which we can update as necessary.
> >
> > >
> > > > By the way, are the links into our mailing list and document
> > > > archive member-only, or do they work for others?
> > >
> > > The links from the TC page are for anybody. The internal
> > links within
> > > Eric's email are member only, because that's what the
> > upload-document
> > > function generates.
> >
> > Which is a problem, because that means a non-member doesn't
> > have access to the corrected schemas.  If we are going to
> > "publish" an erratum with corrected schemas, it seems that
> > non-members should be able to access those schemas.
> >
> > Given the ongoing inadequacies in the OASIS web site setup,
> > perhaps this idea of an Errata page is too much trouble.
> > It seemed like such a simple, obvious idea--like the W3C
> > uses--but if it's going to be so difficult to do right,
> > I'm ready to give up on it.
> >
> > paul
> >