------------------------------------------------------- OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes Tuesday, 20 January 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/msg00025.html Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by XXX; approved by acclamation. 3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS No reports. 4. Reassign Jeff's items: * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00027.html Jeff Ogden cannot continue work on the architectural specification and the other documents that he was slated to work on. Michael Priestley suggested that we need a information architect, who will assemble the DITA map and farm out topics to others. This requires a broad understanding of the DITA spec rather than detailed technical knowledge about individual areas. JoAnn offered to create a spreadsheet of the 1.1 topics. Michael reiterated that there are substantial architectural changes between DITA 1.1 and DITA 1.2; because of this, the DITA 1.1 architectural spec topics will not be a very useful base -- many topics will need to be rewritten and split up. He commented that he early on had created an outline for the 1.2 architectural spec; perhaps Jeff has further amended it. The general consensus was that we needed to get materials from Jeff Ogden before the next TC meeting. If we don't get materials from Jeff, we'll begin with Michael's original outline. Action: Don Day will locate the outline, send it to Jeff, ask if he has any comments, and request that Jeff get any comments and materials to the TC before the next meeting. Action: Don Day will send a note to the TC, asking for volunteers for the architectural spec. 5. Review Master Topic List--Gershon * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00030.html Robert Anderson asked what is the point of doing this with the language specification, since the work has largely been completed. JoAnn Hackos stated that it would enable the committee to perform a rapid read through of the language spec and identify new places where usability improvements could be made. Robert stated that he expected to complete and post a new draft of the 1.2 language spec by the end of next week; he stated that this would be a good time for a new review. Michael Priestley commented that he had not previously seen the potential for the spreadsheet approach to drive a usability review. JoAnn stated that she wanted people to discuss whether a spreadsheet would be a helpful mechanism to drive development of the architectural spec. Don Day stated that he wanted time to consider this. The item deferred to the next TC meeting. 6. Note to McRae about CMS Don Day stated that he and Gershon has drafted an e-mail and would continue to work on this item. 7. DITA 1.2 Specification Review Assignments * http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Draft_DITA_1.2_Specification_Review_Assignments Don Day asked that everyone update the table about the specification reviews. 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 Discussion from Su-Laine Yeo and Michael Priestley ensued. Michael clarified that there would be a master build map (owned by the information architect for the product) that the processor would call. How to handle content that should not be displayed anywhere? Su-Laine stated that this is a problem for anchorref also. Possibly need a new attribute. Discussion to follow via e-mail. Meeting adjourned early so that people could watch the inauguration of the 44th US president, Barack Obama.