DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 13 June 2006

(Recorded by Alan Houser <arh@groupwellesley.com>)

The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 13 June 2006 at 08:00am PST

1. Roll call: We have a quorum.

2. Review/Approve previous minutes.
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200606/msg00004.html
   Accepted as recorded.

Review outstanding action items:
3. JoAnn Hackos -- transitional text
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200606/msg00010.html
   Hackos -- This is first draft. Will appreciate feedback from TC by June 26.
   This is a 'best practice' document and is not intended to be part of the DITA 1.1 spec.

4. Don Day -- Review using wiki
   * business item for today (below)

5. Robert Anderson -- fix xmlns bug and update bug list
   * updated bug list: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Bug_fixes_for_DITA_1%2e1
   * updated DTDs: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200606/msg00008.html
   Anderson -- Completed. Action closed.

   Bookmap prototypes have been distributed. Need editing, but are ready
   for comments. Bookmap discussion is ongoing on the list.

6. Feature signups--assess the doc effort, and implement
   * business item for today

7. Gershon Joseph: contact Mary re. review options
   Completed. Action closed. Outcome is yet unknown.

Business items:

8. ITEM: Update on reviewing tools (or lack thereof) at our disposal (Priestley, Joseph).
   Priestley -- Cannot use wiki as review mechanism.

   Suggested procedure -- Michael Priestley will migrate 1.0 spec to wiki.
   Will post outline topics and turn into links without targets. TC members
   should use outlines as starting points for review. To comment on topic:

   - find topic in outline
   - create link to comment on topic
   - add topic as stand-alone node

   Discussion -- Formal review is via the TC mailing list, but this isn't a
   formal review. Just an internal TC review. O.K. to use wiki in
   "creative" ways for this. Wiki's lack of HTML support is unfortunate.

9. ITEM: Feature signup actions--assess the work required to update the spec for new features: 
   * Bookmap - Robert
   * Shortdesc - Michael
   * Index - Chris Wong
   * Graphics - Paul Grosso (sent impact assessment previously)
   * Glossary = Erik Hennum
   * metadata - Michael
   * universal - Robert
   * data element - Erik Hennum
   * Foreign content - Eric Sirois
   * Translation - Gershon
   * DTD/schema bugs - Robert 
   * Editing bugs - Michael

   Priestley -- Status is:
   Bookmap, graphics, glossary, metadata, universal impact assessments done
   Shortdesc, index, foreign content, translation, editing bugs still pending
   DTD/Schema bugs are next agenda item

10. ITEM: topicref/@outputclass (Erik Hennum)
   * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200606/msg00003.html
   * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200606/msg00006.html

   Hennum -- DITA 1.0 'outputclass' attribute provides informal semantic
   extension capability (e.g, HTML ‘class’ or DocBook ‘role’). Useful for
   prototyping. Have this capability for topics, but not with maps, and the
   need is just as strong.

   Discussion -- Unfortunately, can’t constrain how people use this
   attribute. Hopefully best practices will discourage mis-use.

   Hennum/Priestley -- this is a clean-up, not a new feature.

   Hennum -- motion to fix

   Passed by acclamation.

Meeting adjourned at 08:38 PST.