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Subject: DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 21 September 2010
<<Minutes20100921.txt>> DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 21 September 2010 Chaired by Don Day <donday@bga.com> Minutes recorded by Bruce Nevin <bnevin@cisco.com> The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 08:00am PT for 55 minutes. 8:00-8:05 Roll call > Quorum was achieved. STANDING BUSINESS: Approve minutes from previous business meeting: * Moved by Don, seconded by Dick Hamilton; approved by acclamation. Subcommittee/liaison reports: * OASIS DITA Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee (Beims) > Activity low for about a year, just monthly touching base, because the adoption rate in the industry has been slow, exacerbated by the "Great Recession" (40% contraction). Encouraged by signs of recovery. > Have written draft specializations for managing registered content. First information pattern tackled probably the most difficult, but biggest payback: API for each IP block must be described discretely. Bob's company using these specializations. Working to get rough draft into a committee draft for circulation. > A few months ago discussed semiconductor implementors' group or "virtual DITA user group" for discussion incurring cost of OASIS membership. Members present success stories with DITA. First official presentation tomorrow. Monthly presentations planned. Beims 3 months out. > Most are very early on the learning curve with specializations, but increasing numbers getting involved. > Don: Do you anticipate interest in learning & training specializations? Bob: Yes, on list, and in fact he has particular interest in this. Best Practices conference addressed this from organizational perspective, but DITA enables this. Tool vendors are watching this space. Need to demonstrate market drive. At Best Practices, IBM won the "Rare Bird" award last Wednesday for work in the semiconductor space. Action Items: * Review open items: http://www.oasis- open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/members/action_items.php > Few actions, most of them closed. Comments: * PublicReview1Comments > C008: Chris Kravogel out of touch, need a volunteer to look at those topics and make sure they're up to date. Don will contact some of us off line. > Robert's suggestion about including domains in maps was approved. > Robert: Eric expects to have his items updated this week. > C036: Restore the 1.1 content of course. Just dropped in the course of a complex reorganization of the content, we noted that such changes call for particular attention from editors. ACTION: Bruce: Ask Adoption TC if they need to update the DITA 1.2 public adopters list to reflect folks identified by Bob Beims. ACTION: Don: Ensure that Freescale is represented on the TC's adopters list (not core adoption, specialization adoption). BUSINESS: 1. New ITEM: Domains in maps (request for discussion by Robert) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201009/msg00078.html > Approved in discussion of comments above. 2. ASSESSMENT: how are we poised for next CD schedule? Any blockers? Any remaining concerns? > Close to wrapping up comments, need to put draft out in the next week or two. Getting content updated is the only block. Substantive changes are at an end, nits and tweaks possible. Eliot expects to be finished by start of business Friday. Robert expects to be finished then. Don: do we need a production test run? Robert: plan to vote next Tuesday. > Don: unless production bugs show up or unless there concerns calling for committee review remain unanswered. > Plan to post on Friday. If everyone is comfortable with it, we can vote on Tuesday. 15-day review is next. 3. ITEM: PDF processing for Spec (resumed from last week) > Robert updated us on the status, and we're good to go. CLOSED. 4. New ITEM: Initiate TC discussion about post-1.2 packaging * At the TC meeting on 13 July 2010, Gershon raised the point that we need to consider how we will handle SC releases and niche specializations going forward. The user community is concerned by the "weight" and "size" of the DITA 1.2 release. > Eliot: would like a precedent for different SCs to publish their specializations independently. For example, if not for dependencies on DITA 1.2 the Learning & Training specializations could have been published as a standalone spec. > Don: OK if only a packaging matter, not requiring committee review, etc. > Eliot: Would like to see the DITA spec become a larger number of smaller pieces rather than a single monolithic document. OASIS is OK with work developed by the SC if approved and published by the TC. > Don: so long as SC membership able to drive the creation and review process within the scope of the TC. > Don: Next week, focus on what packages we need to have in hand as 1.2 goes out. 8:59 Adjourn
DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 21 September 2010 Chaired by Don Day <donday@bga.com> Minutes recorded by Bruce Nevin <bnevin@cisco.com> The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 08:00am PT for 55 minutes. 8:00-8:05 Roll call > Quorum was achieved. STANDING BUSINESS: Approve minutes from previous business meeting: * Moved by Don, seconded by Dick Hamilton; approved by acclamation. Subcommittee/liaison reports: * OASIS DITA Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee (Beims) > Activity low for about a year, just monthly touching base, because the adoption rate in the industry has been slow, exacerbated by the “Great Recession” (40% contraction). Encouraged by signs of recovery. > Have written draft specializations for managing registered content. First information pattern tackled probably the most difficult, but biggest payback: API for each IP block must be described discretely. Bob’s company using these specializations. Working to get rough draft into a committee draft for circulation. > A few months ago discussed semiconductor implementors’ group or “virtual DITA user group” for discussion incurring cost of OASIS membership. Members present success stories with DITA. First official presentation tomorrow. Monthly presentations planned. Beims 3 months out. > Most are very early on the learning curve with specializations, but increasing numbers getting involved. > Don: Do you anticipate interest in learning & training specializations? Bob: Yes, on list, and in fact he has particular interest in this. Best Practices conference addressed this from organizational perspective, but DITA enables this. Tool vendors are watching this space. Need to demonstrate market drive. At Best Practices, IBM won the “Rare Bird” award last Wednesday for work in the semiconductor space. Action Items: * Review open items: http://www.oasis- open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/members/action_items.php > Few actions, most of them closed. Comments: * PublicReview1Comments > C008: Chris Kravogel out of touch, need a volunteer to look at those topics and make sure they’re up to date. Don will contact some of us off line. > Robert’s suggestion about including domains in maps was approved. > Robert: Eric expects to have his items updated this week. > C036: Restore the 1.1 content of course. Just dropped in the course of a complex reorganization of the content, we noted that such changes call for particular attention from editors. ACTION: Bruce: Ask Adoption TC if they need to update the DITA 1.2 public adopters list to reflect folks identified by Bob Beims. ACTION: Don: Ensure that Freescale is represented on the TC’s adopters list (not core adoption, specialization adoption). BUSINESS: 1. New ITEM: Domains in maps (request for discussion by Robert) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201009/msg00078.html > Approved in discussion of comments above. 2. ASSESSMENT: how are we poised for next CD schedule? Any blockers? Any remaining concerns? > Close to wrapping up comments, need to put draft out in the next week or two. Getting content updated is the only block. Substantive changes are at an end, nits and tweaks possible. Eliot expects to be finished by start of business Friday. Robert expects to be finished then. Don: do we need a production test run? Robert: plan to vote next Tuesday. > Don: unless production bugs show up or unless there concerns calling for committee review remain unanswered. > Plan to post on Friday. If everyone is comfortable with it, we can vote on Tuesday. 15-day review is next. 3. ITEM: PDF processing for Spec (resumed from last week) > Robert updated us on the status, and we’re good to go. CLOSED. 4. New ITEM: Initiate TC discussion about post-1.2 packaging * At the TC meeting on 13 July 2010, Gershon raised the point that we need to consider how we will handle SC releases and niche specializations going forward. The user community is concerned by the "weight" and "size" of the DITA 1.2 release. > Eliot: would like a precedent for different SCs to publish their specializations independently. For example, if not for dependencies on DITA 1.2 the Learning & Training specializations could have been published as a standalone spec. > Don: OK if only a packaging matter, not requiring committee review, etc. > Eliot: Would like to see the DITA spec become a larger number of smaller pieces rather than a single monolithic document. OASIS is OK with work developed by the SC if approved and published by the TC. > Don: so long as SC membership able to drive the creation and review process within the scope of the TC. > Don: Next week, focus on what packages we need to have in hand as 1.2 goes out. 8:59 Adjourn
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