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Subject: MEETING MINUTES -- 17 May 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
MEETING MINUTES -- 17 May 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE *** Please see Action Items and Decision Summary at the end *** ** Agenda ** ------------ 1. Roll call 2. Review/approve minutes: - 26 April: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00004.html - 03 May: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00008.html 3. Discuss Robert Anderson's review of DITA 1.0 DTDs - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00021.html 4. Wrapup of the DITA 1.1 Requirements list (public inform): - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00024.html 5. Discuss how to sort out the top issues and what process to use to work them. 6. More on "OASIS Website" thread? 7. More on "Marketing/Press relations" thread? 8. AOB ** Minutes ** ------------- 1. Roll call - - We have 15/25 => QUORUM 2. Review/approve minutes: - 26 April: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00004.html - Minutes approved by acclamation. - 03 May: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00008.html - Chris Wong -- Any follow-up on the negative votes? - Michael Priestley -- Should we contact those two parties? - Don Day -- Action Item to contact those two parties who cast a No-vote - Minutes approved by acclamation. 3. Discuss Robert Anderson's review of DITA 1.0 DTDs - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00021.html - Catalogs are incorrect -- need slight updating to point to the correct files. This is the most important issue. - Public ID in the map files should be in upper-case - Class attribute for title element was declared twice (though declared the same way both times) - Many issues/inconsistencies in the comments -- not really important - Mary McGuire (sp?) -- Not unusual for standards to discover that there are some issues the day after they're issued. We can put out a fix update -- this is not at all unusual. This is not a "1.1" revision -- just a minor correction. - Don -- What about schemas? - Robert -- Hasn't done any parsing tests here. - Scott Tsao -- Question about OpenToolkit README for schema implementation. - Some discussion and clarification ensued -- couldn't capture all of it. - Scott -- Will there be a change to the statement in the README? It's important. - Don -- It's not a TC issue, but yes, Don will make a note of it and clarify the README. - Scott -- We need to make it as simple as possible for people without having to understand all the underlying code. - Michael Priestley -- Let's vote on this. - Chris Wong -- Let's NOT vote now; let's take some time to review the changes to the DTDs. - Action for all -- Review Robert's review of the DTDs. - Michael Priestley -- Let's make Robert Anderson the official maintainer of the DTDs, since he's a TC member now. - Robert Anderson was appointed the "Official Maintainer of the DTDs and Schemas". Approved by acclamation. 4. Wrapup of the DITA 1.1 Requirements list (public inform): - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00024.html - Don -- Let's not put this out for public comment -- we already have enough comments/requirements. Let's put it out as "this is what we are planning to do", not soliciting comments but simply informing. - Michael -- It's OK to solicit comments. But we'll just vote on them to decide whether to implement the suggestions. If there are some outlandish suggestions, we can just reject them. It's our "due diligence requirement" -- there are DITA users who are not represented on the TC. - Sharon -- Agrees with Michael. - Action for Don -- We'll submit this for public review through the TC site, and announce on DITA-Users -- two-week review period (review commenting period to be closed EOD 6/6/05). Don will publish ONLY the requirements document -- will NOT publish the "normal TC process" document (bug fixes, process questions, documentation issues). - Bruce -- Some of the requirements doc is not described fully; and the source column is probably something we don't want to publish (where the idea originated). - Don -- Agrees. We also should omit the prioritization column. - Michael -- It would still be interesting to know what the public thinks about the priorities. - Don -- Let's also ask people to indicate which items are important to them. - Seraphim -- Ask instead for people to choose their "top 5" -- helps to focus the prioritization a little better. - Don -- Does anyone have time to provide more description for each item? - Don -- Maybe everyone could look through the requirements list and post full descriptions to the TC list. New action item for everyone. 5. Discuss how to sort out the top issues and what process to use to work them. - Don -- Public review will indicate people's Top 5. - Some items are no-brainers -- Bug Fixes, for example. - Book Map issue -- Important to get quality print. The Book Map is important for many people as a reference implementation for getting high-quality print. - Are there other issues that seem to be obviously important? - Language proposals have been good -- data element, for example. - Let's move this discussion to the list, since we're out of time. 6. More on "OASIS Website" thread? - Not covered. 7. More on "Marketing/Press relations" thread? - Not covered. 8. AOB - Don -- Let's appoint JoAnn Hackos to be Co-Editor of the 1.1 Specification (together with Michael). - Approved by acclamation. ** Summary of Decisions ** -------------------------- - Robert Anderson was appointed the "Official Maintainer of the DTDs and Schemas". Approved by acclamation. - JoAnn Hackos was appointed Co-Editor of the 1.1 Specification (together with Michael Priestley). Approved by acclamation. ** Action Required ** --------------------- 022 Don, Michael -- Put together a "self-study" tutorial/demo, as per JoAnn's comments regarding the DITA sessions. Still pending as of 7/20/04. 062 Eric Sirois, 10/05/04 -- provide XSLT validation for specialized schemas once developed (Indi recommends Jarno to work with him) >>> 1/25/05 -- this will be an ongoing project; the 1.0 spec does not depend on this. 079 Don Day, 2/8/05 -- Ask Mary Macrae about several issues -- - How can the public submit comments on the CD? Can we get a mailing list set up? etc. - What are the constraints for the final format of the CD? 080 All, 2/8/05 -- Remove comments from the CD. 081 All, 2/8/05 -- Will there be a .chm version of the CD files? 082 All, 3/8/05 -- Submit comments to Michael Priestley on the Architecture Specification. 085 Michael Priestley, 3/15/05 -- provide the HTML format as part of the spec (to be done after the submission). 086 Who?, 3/15/05 -- Need to submit the committee draft 2 to the OASIS administration for approval. 087 3/29/05 -- Ask JoAnn Hackos if she wants to continue in her role as co-Editor with Michael Priestley. 090 Bruce Esrig, 4/26/05 -- Come up with examples of formal completeness issues -- e.g. features spplied to some elements but not all. 091 JoAnn Hackos, 5/3/05 -- CMS interoperability document / questionnaire <<< post to TC list. 092 Don Day, 5/17/05 -- Contact the two parties who cast a No-vote against approving the 1.0 DITA specification, to find out why they voted that way. 093 All, 5/17/05 -- Review Robert Anderson's review of the DTDs -- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00021.html 094 All, 5/17/05 -- Due by 5/20 -- Look through the requirements list and post full descriptions to the TC list. Don will then roll them into the doc he is posting for public review. Don will target 5/23 as his posting date. 095 Don Day, 5/17/05 -- Due by 5/23 -- Submit the 1.1 Requirements List for public review with a cover letter and solicit comments/additional ideas, and also ask for which items are most important (choose top 5). Review to be closed by start of meeting 6/7/05. 096 (placeholder) ** Issues to be Resolved ** --------------------------- 009 "Best Practices" document -- Let's put this on the agenda for future discussion. 010 Relationship between DITA and other topic-based architectures (such as S1000D) -- Need to incorporate this into the "Best Practices" document. 012 All, 2/8/05 -- Decide how to manage incoming comments resulting from the Public Review of the Committee Draft. 013 Need volunteer to find mentions of "post 1.0" deferred items -- need to rank by priority and difficulty) solid things for 1.1; medium effort design work candidates for 1.2; big items for 2.0 in minutes (3/8/05). 014 (3/29/05) Need list of possible "triage" criteria for deciding how to prioritize new requirements. Don read a list of possible criteria at the 3/29/05 meeting. To be discussed and resolved at the next meeting. 015 (4/26/05) Module registry and module standardization process. 016 (placeholder for next) <END> ___________________________________________________________ Seraphim Larsen CIG Operations / TPPE Senior Technical Writer Intel Corporation (480) 552-6504 Chandler, AZ In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. - Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut The content of this message is my personal opinion only. Although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter. ___________________________________________________________
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