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Subject: Minutes: DITA Technical Committee on 15 September 2009
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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes ======================================== The DITA Technical Committee met on 15 September 2009 at 08:00am PT for 60 minutes. Chaired by Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com> Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <gerjosep@cisco.com> Roll call > Quorum was achieved. Approve minutes from previous business meetings: * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00120.html (8 September 2009, Gershon) > Minutes approved by acclamation. Subcommittee/liaison reports (as needed) * OASIS DITA Adoption TC (today) > Gershon updated the TC > The SC is working on the following items: > * selection criteria for users selecting DITA tools > * a vendor-oriented doc is planned for later > * we hope to develop a test suite of DITA content that users can > use to test the tools they are considering for DITA support. > Don noted that the Help TC has a world time clock examples we may be able > to leverage. > Gershon will take this note back to the TC. > * We are working on the following DITA feature articles: > * Keyref (this one has already been published) > * Generic task type (draft) > * Improved link management (in progress) > * Referencing a range of elements (final) > * Conref by push (draft) > * Acronyms and Glossaries (2 articles, one is a high-level introduction > and overview, the other is a more detailed article that discusses all > related elements. > * SWOT analysis is still in progress. > * Planning a Translation Adoption SC > Paul raised concern on too many SCs. Long discussion... > Don suggestion creating guidelines for scoping and managing the formation > of new SCs and existing SCs. Announcement: * Technical reviewers for specialization book (Hamilton) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00112.html ITEM: DITA 1.2 specification * Business: * Progress report on architectural spec > Gershon noted that the authors are making good progress. > Deadlines are at risk, since there is still lots of work to be done. * Generic Task vs. Task topic type * Need to tighten up spec wording and possibly DTDs/Schema. > This was discussed as part of the main work item further down in the agenda. * Outstanding action items: * Add hazard-statement graphics to applicable lang ref topics (Kravogel) > Kris sent the images shortly before the meeting and will send > descriptions after the meeting. > CLOSED. * Follow up: * order for lang ref files * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00042.html (Kristen reply) > CONTINUED. ITEM: Issue: glossary.dtd does not conform to 1.2 naming specs (rate as a 1.2 bug?) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00022.html (Kimber) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00034.html (Ogden, "1.3?") > Eliot: Jeff agreed with me that making the change would not be disruptive. > The existing modules would redirect to the new ones. > The TC agreed to rename the current glossary.* to glossentry.* and create new > glossary.* files that redirect to the glossentry.* files. There would be no > functional change to the current glossary.* files. > The TC agreed to mark the old glossary.* as deprecated. > Jeff: The spec should also list the reason why they are being deprecated. > DECISION: Eliot's motion was accepted by acclamation. > ACTION: Eliot to update the docs, DTDs and schema and put all the changes in > SVN. New ITEM: History question: Why does <data> not include <cite>? * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00028.html (Kimber) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00046.html (Hennum) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00064.html (Kimber, reply) > CLOSED. New ITEM: Problems with the task model (new question from JoAnn) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00080.html (JoAnn) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00083.html (Kimber) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00097.html (Priestley reply to Steffen) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00104.html (Eberlein, final assessment?) > DECISION: Task constraint should be added to DITABASE so that its task is > also constrained. > ACTION: Robert to add task constraint to DITABASE. > Su-Laine is concerned that the generic task type then wont be available in > the ditabase. > Eliot: DITABASE is intended for conversion, not production. > Su-Laine: That's exactly why it's more important to support it in ditabase. > The discussion came back to the automatic shell generator discussion... > Continue discussion on the list. > CONTINUED. New ITEM: Constraints support (spinoff from task model) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00082.html (Hennum, then follow the trail) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00109.html (Kimber, rollup) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00118.html (Ogden, Arbortext adoption example) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00144.html (Yeo, XMetaL adoption example) > CLOSED. > Note: If JoAnn has a more specific question we can take it as an editorial > comment) New ITEM: <text> should be allowed just about everywhere * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00105.html (Kimber) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00128.html (Kimber, agreement to put onto 1.3 list) > ACTION: Eliot to add to the 1.3 list. > CLOSED. New ITEM: Bug in 1.2 DTDs with xml:lang * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00127.html (Grosso) > ACTION: Robert to fix the 1.2 DTDs > CLOSED. New ITEM: 1.3 Issue: Use FUll CALS Table * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00129.html (Kimber) * Don recommends putting directly to 1.3 list > ACTION: Eliot to add this item to the 1.3 feature list. > CLOSED. New ITEM: 1.3 Issue: Allow <tgroup> With <fig>/Allow * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00131.html (Kimber) * Don recommends putting directly to 1.3 list > Eliot: Need to allow tables in figures and figures in tables. > ACTION: Eliot to add this to the 1.3 features list including use cases and > scenarios. > CLOSED. *** Meeting Adjourned ***
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