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      OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes
                Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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Minutes recorded by Kristen James Eberlein.


1. ROLL CALL
Quorum is present.


2. Approve minutes from previous business meetings:
*  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00013.html (3 March
2009) 
Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by Rob Frankland; motion carried
by acclamation.


3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS

* OASIS DITA Adoption Committee
Scheduled for next week.


4. ITEM: Behavior of q element (short update?)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00005.html (Anderson
roll-up)
Robert Anderson has the information that he needs to modify the
specification. Item closed.


5. Data types and default values (short update?)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00000.html
(Anderson)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00017.html (Grosso's
recommendation) 

No progress on action items. Robert Anderson raised the point that these
should be separate agenda items.

Old actions:
1) Michael Priestley will send e-mail to Gershon, presenting background on
this issue. 
2) Gershon will take this item to the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee, ask
them to open discussion with OASIS about ways to make specification
commentable. 
3) People should give suggestions of non-normative sites to Robert
Anderson(via e-mail).

New action: Don to close this item and reopen it as two new action items.


6. ITEM: Cross-references to Topicheads and Implicit Title-only Topics
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00039.html (Eliot,
others) 

Discussion ensued. The (one of the?)  technical problem is how to form a
URL that points to a generated topic formed from a <topichead>.

Action: Discussion to continue on the list, hopefully with a proposal to be
developed for discussion next week.


7. ITEM: Hazard Statement Width
*  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00029.html (Grosso
and ongoing)
*  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00008.html (Kravogel
suggested actions)
Item deferred until a future meeting when Chris Kravogel is present.


8. ITEM: Allowing appendices to be grouped
*  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00047.html (Grosso,
and following) 
Motion made to create a new element (specialization of <topicref> to enable
grouping of appendices. This would involve change to scope of work for DITA
1.2: new work items and modifications to Language specification. Motion
made by Don Day; seconded by Paul Grosso; approved by acclamation.


9. ITEM: SVN content management for TC drafts and assets
Item closed.
Action: Don Day will move this to the ongoing checks section of the
agenda.


10. New ITEM: Mapref attribute resolution
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00007.html (Anderson)

Robert Anderson restated the issue. Discussion ensued. Don Day suggested
that we tease out what is 1.2 and what is 1.3 items. Item to continue next
week.


11. New ITEM: DITA Help Technologies Guide (DITA Help SC item for TC
review)
*  http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-help/documents.php
(Doherty)
*  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00010.html (Yeo
response) 
Su-Laine Yeo stated that she thinks there are many outstanding questions
about vendor-neutrality of the document, and whatever posted under the
OASIS name must be vendor neutral. She also has questions about some of the
facts in the documents, and whether TC members have the level of knowledge
to approve the content of the document. Michael Priestley asked whether the
document was intended to be approved by the DITA TC committee (yes) and
whether Su-Laine's concerns would be alleviated by the fact of having the
document published by the DITA Adoption Committee (no). Stan D. stated that
perhaps the document should state that all vendors were offered the
opportunity to participate (many didn't not have the time). Su-Laine asked
what was the criteria for inclusion in the guide. She stated that the
document refers to products that are not currently shipped. She also asked
what fact checking was completed. Stan stated that the document was
reviewed and tested by all subcommittee members. He also stated that the
goal of the document was to encourage people to consider using DITA for
help and to counter the perception that DITA was not suitable for help,
that the document was intended to provide information not serve as QA
certification. Michael Priestley raised the point that there were multiple
options for publishing this document, and perhaps it would be better for
inclusion on dita.xml.org as a set of case studies. Sue-Laine stated that
she thought that issuing the document on dita.xml.org would be a good
compromise; content on a Wiki is intended to be a work in progress and does
not have the presumption of OASIS approval. She stated that she felt that
the consensus-based group review process that had been used so far would
not scale to a larger group that included direct competitors, and that a
group in which direct competitors were supposed to agree on what would be
written about each others' products would quickly run into problems.

Action: 
1. Stan Doherty to reply to Su-Laine's last comment on the list.
2. Kris Eberlein to post to the list about the Adoption Committee's
response to this item.

Meeting adjourned.

 -- Kristen Eberlein

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