From: Michael Priestley
[mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, 2011 January 14 10:33
To: Grosso, Paul
Cc: DITA TC
Subject: RE: [dita] Providing a DITA OT plug-in for specs available to
other OASIS users
Hi Paul,
DocBook has
specific support for OASIS publications, hosted by OASIS here:
http://www.oasis-open.org/spectools/
The support
includes templates, usage documentation, and stylesheets for HTML and PDF.
As a result,
DocBook is a supported format for any TC who wishes to use it to document their
standard. I want to see equivalent support for DITA.
Michael
Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
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From:
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"Grosso,
Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>
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To:
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"DITA
TC" <dita@lists.oasis-open.org>
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Date:
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01/14/2011
10:59 AM
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Subject:
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RE:
[dita] Providing a DITA OT plug-in for specs available to other OASIS users
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I'm not
sure I quite understand "the bar for providing OASIS publication
support." Perhaps there are things about which I am unfamiliar in
this area.
The DocBook
TC publishes the standard and schemas through OASIS. See http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook#technical
The DocBook
analogy to our dita.xml.org is docbook.org which is unaffiliated with OASIS.
The XSL
stylesheets that can be used to compose DocBook documents and related
"toolish" information are housed at http://docbook.sourceforge.net/.
paul
From: Michael Priestley [mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, 2011 January 14 9:44
To: Grosso, Paul
Cc: DITA TC
Subject: RE: [dita] Providing a DITA OT plug-in for specs available to
other OASIS users
My opinion is that we should duplicate whatever support and distribution
mechanisms DocBook provides. They've set the bar for providing OASIS
publication support.
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
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From:
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"Grosso,
Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>
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To:
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"DITA
TC" <dita@lists.oasis-open.org>
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Date:
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01/14/2011
10:35 AM
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Subject:
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RE:
[dita] Providing a DITA OT plug-in for specs available to other OASIS users
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My opinion is that the DITA TC (1) should develop the standard and avoid
aligning itself with any particular implementation and (2) has plenty of work
to do on the standard and already has a track record for taking much longer
than thought at first to get out the next version and so shouldn't spend time
on tools.
So for several reasons I prefer choice #3 (which might also be the easiest
given the OASIS process).
paul
From:
Kristen Eberlein [mailto:keberlein@sdl.com]
Sent: Friday, 2011 January 14 6:25
To: DITA TC
Subject: [dita] Providing a DITA OT plug-in for specs available to other
OASIS users
Robert has finished a first round of work on the plug-in (thanks, Robert!), and
so I’ve started a conversation with Robin Cover about how best to make
the plug-in available. Since it will need documentation providing information
about how to set up the plug-in up and configure a bookmap to hold the
requisite publication information, it does involve a TC work artifact,
which would be the new non-standards work-track item – a committee note.
Here are what our options appear to be:
1. Apply to the TC Admin for requisite metadata, produce the
document per whatever “template,” label the document as a
working draft, and give it to the TC Admin who will make it available from http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/
2. Apply to the TC Admin for requisite metadata, produce the
document per whatever “template,” go through the formal review
process to approve the document as a TC work product.
3. Make the plug-in and documentation available from another
venue, for example, Sourceforge or dita.xml.org.
I think that the TC will need to consider the pros and cons of each approach
and decide how it wants to move forward with this item.
I’ll send another e-mail to the list explaining the OASIS processes that
the TC would need to follow for options 1 or 2.
Best regards,
Kris