Re: [dita] some comemnts on the Draft DITA 1.2 architecture spec.

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>]

On 7/1/09 12:54 PM, "Ogden, Jeff" <jogden@ptc.com> wrote:

> Another thing that makes this hard is that the DITA TC only has the DITA
> Specification to work with or perhaps the DITA Specification plus some
> best practice documents. If we had something other than the DITA
> Specification such as an Implementer's Guide or a User's Guide that
> might allow us to focus the specification on true standards issues and
> focus the other documents on issues that are of more concern to
> implanters or authors. I guess some of this might be something that the
> DITA Adoption TC could take on, but it would be a lot of work and isn't
> likely to happen soon.

Actually, I think we've generally agreed that an Implementation Guide is
both necessary and urgent. We've already agreed, I think, to move a number
of the "how to" topics from the original Arch Spec draft into that document.

I have already volunteered to work on that doc as soon as we're done with
the Arch Spec--I think it's existence will be a key to continued adoption of
DITA and the fact that we do have the Adoption TC as a vehicle for
publishing such things at least means it can be an organized effort.

Cheers,

E.
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