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Subject: Groups - DITA TC meeting, 3 February 2009 (DITA_TC_meeting_02032009.txt) uploaded
------------------------------------------------------- OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes Tuesday, 3 February 2009 ------------------------------------------------------- Minutes recorded by Kristen James Eberlein. 1. ROLL CALL Quorum is present. 2. MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS BUSINESS MEETING * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00043.html Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by Chris Kravogel; approved by acclamation. 3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS No reports. 4. New ITEM: Gershon to discuss web collaboration tools Cisco has volunteered to offer a WebEx conference so that we can better deal with this spreadsheet. Action: Gershon will arrange a recurring WebEX conference and send information to the TC. 5. New ITEM: review Master Topic List * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00030.html * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00042.html Gershon will act as project manager about this item for the next few weeks. He has uploaded a new version of the spreadsheet, which now includes the DITA 1.2 outline. He also has received e-mail from Michael Priestley about changes that Michael and Jeff Ogden had discussed; he has not yet incorporated that material. Michael Priestley asked that a DITA map be developed in tandem with the spreadsheet to facilitate development of the architectural spec. He also pointed out that we will need to develop DITA maps for each of the documents that will be bundled in specific packages. JoAnn asked if the committee should review some of the topics that are currently marked as requiring major changes. There was a general consensus that this would be time consuming but valuable. The spreadsheet that Gershon will have available next week will be a starting part for people to volunteer to work on certain topics or groups of topics. JoAnn asked what the plan would be for tracking status of documents that subcommittees will be delivering. Don Day indicated that he thought that was a project management task for Gershon. Michael P. asked whether the decisions made about packaging are reflected in the Language Specification. For the conceptual material, should we have a consolidated version? Or mini documents for each package? Michael suggested that each package have an "About the spec" topic. JoAnn asked whether we would removing core topics about CTR from all but the Tech Comm package; she thought this might be a usability problem. Michael commented that CTR is not essential to DITA. People are adopting DITA and not using CTR; they are specializations. Goal is to make it easier for people adopting a specific specialization to not be overwhelmed with material for other specializations that they are not using. JoAnn commented that the Adoption Committee needed to look at the issue of how to keep people from being scared off, whether by one large book or 18 small ones. Michael commented that we want to make it easy for people to create light-weight topics and DITA applications. Don't want to make the entry cost too high. The base package is core DITA, which is topic + map. Action: Gershon to ping chairs of subcommittees (Machine Industry and Learning and Training) and ask them to keep him informed about the status of their deliverables. Action: Robert Anderson to send an e-mail to list about the different DITA maps for the different packages. 6. ITEM: DITA 1.2 Specification Review Assignments * http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Draft_DITA_1.2_Specification_Review_Assignments Don asked whether this should be tabled until after we have a new draft. Gershon asked that this be left open for a few weeks as we decide how to handle the Lang Spec. Action: Gershon will fold the Arch spec information into the spreadsheet. Don will rename the agenda item as "Lang Spec assignments." 7. New ITEM: Steps-Informal request * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00001.html (Anderson) This has been resolved on the list. 8. New ITEM: "Conref push for static output formats" discussion * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200812/msg00006.html * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200812/msg00007.html This item has been superseded by the item about "Map structure and possible new attribute for conref push and anchorref." 9. New ITEM: Map structure and possible new attribute for conref push and anchorref * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00034.html (Su-Laine Yeo, Eliot, Bruce) There is ongoing discussion between Su-Laine Yeo, Erik Hennum, and Robert Anderson about some issues relating to this discussion. Su-Laine reported that there is an ongoing discussion about how to prevent content from appearing in two places; she has suggested adding an additional attribute. Discussion of possible names for such an attribute ensued. Robert Anderson suggested that this attribute be part of the topicref attributes group. Action: Su-Laine will post a proposal to the list. Meeting adjourned. -- Kristen Eberlein The document named DITA TC meeting, 3 February 2009 (DITA_TC_meeting_02032009.txt) has been submitted by Kristen Eberlein to the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC document repository. Document Description: View Document Details: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=31143 Download Document: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/31143/DITA_TC_meeting_02032009.txt PLEASE NOTE: If the above links do not work for you, your email application may be breaking the link into two pieces. You may be able to copy and paste the entire link address into the address field of your web browser. -OASIS Open Administration
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