Authors, can we meet our 19 October deadline for the 3rd review?

[Kristen James Eberlein <keberlein@pobox.com>]

Authors, below is a table that contains my assessment of the work to be done before the 3rd review opens. (John Hunt, I haven't added an assessment for the L & T topics since the subcommittee doesn't expect to be finished with the review until 13 October.)

Please look over the following table and get back to me as soon as you can with the following information:

• Are the authoring assignments correct? (If so, no need to let me know)
• Do you need someone else to take over part of your current assignment? (Seth, I know you wanted someone else to own a topic or two ...)
  
• Can you meet the 13 October deadline? If not, what deadline could you meet?
• Would having help from someone speed up the progress of the work?
  

Elliot and JoAnn, I'd like to volunteer to work on the "Introduction to DITA" topics if that would be helpful.

Document	Section	Topic collection	Author	Review #2 comments / work to be done	Status
DITA 1.2 specification	Overview of the specification		Eberlein	Moderate	Will be ready for review #3: 19 October 2009
Architectural spec	Introduction to DITA		Hackos  Kimber	Very substantial Needs discussion to determine how to handle vocabulary, among other points
	DITA markup	DITA topics	Hackos	Moderate
		DITA maps	Eberlein	Minimal	Will be ready for review #3: 19 October 2009
		DITA addressing and linking	Seth Park	Substantial: Some (all?) material might need to be relocated to processing Needs to incorporate mater material about @xref and @keyref that currently in the Language Reference topics.
		DITA metadata	Joseph	No review #2 comments; review #1 comments stated that this section was weak and needed rethinking
	Processing	ID attribute	Park	Substantial
		Navigation behaviors
		Attribute inheritance
		Navigation artifacts.
		Content reference
		Profiling with select attributes
		Chunking	Anderson	Minimal
		Printing	Park	Minimal -- do we need a new author for this topic?
		Collation		Minimal -- do we need a new author for this topic?
		Translation and localization	Hackos	Moderate
		The xml:lang attribute
		The dir attribute
		Element-by-element recommendations for translators	Anderson	Minimal
	Specialization		Kimber	Substantial
	Configuration and extension		Kimber	Moderate (but has it been adequately reviewed, especially topics about XSD topics?)
	Technical content		Hackos	Moderate
	Learning and training		Hunt
Language reference	Base		Anderson	Minimal comments, but needs to implement new terminology: Cascading versus inheritance Referencing and referenced element
	Technical content		Anderson?
	Learning and training		Hunt
	Common attributes		Robert Anderson	Substantial -- some material needs to be relocated in the arch spec topics

Best,

Kris