OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

Colleagues, I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ... support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their implementations. Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk irrelevance. Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable. We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec development progresses. Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to this discussion. -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532

'm happy to discuss fast-tracking the LwDITA spec; I've been trying to do so since 2016 or earlier, beginning with insisting that the subcommittee issue the committee note. Two things: It would be helpful for the TC to see the current state of the LwDITA spec. We understand that it is a draft document. I can create a PDF from the content in the LwDITA repo, if needed. The LwDITA spec editors need to understand the reality of the spec approval timeline. The LwDITA spec needs to be approved by the TC and then sent through the OASIS process. After TC approval, there is a minimum of six months for the OASIS process, assuming NO need to modify the spec draft in any way . See https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/50807/Planning-DITA-1.3.pdf for more information. Please look at the PDF referenced above in order to understand the OASIS processes and the time frame that they impose. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 8:52 PM, Alan Houser wrote: Colleagues, I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ... support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their implementations. Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk irrelevance. Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable. We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec development progresses. Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to this discussion. -Alan

Dear Kris and all, In all honesty, this is not a concern about the lack of a fast track LwDITA movement, but about the expected alignment with DITA 2.0 (which has not gone through the OASIS approval process and probably won't go in the near future). We are aware of the approval requirements and we understand the need for alignment, but we were working under the idea of using the LwDITA spec as an experiment in the writing style and language to be used in 2.0... and not necessarily expecting alignment of sections beyond the short descriptions for elements/components as they are written in parallel. The concern is more about having LwDITA chasing 2.0 in its process to become a standard, when 2.0 is not on the same track (fast or slow) in which LwDITA should be running. Best, Carlos -- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication Chair, Hispanic/Latino Faculty & Staff Caucus Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201 On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 9:27 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: 'm happy to discuss fast-tracking the LwDITA spec; I've been trying to do so since 2016 or earlier, beginning with insisting that the subcommittee issue the committee note. Two things: It would be helpful for the TC to see the current state of the LwDITA spec. We understand that it is a draft document. I can create a PDF from the content in the LwDITA repo, if needed. The LwDITA spec editors need to understand the reality of the spec approval timeline. The LwDITA spec needs to be approved by the TC and then sent through the OASIS process. After TC approval, there is a minimum of six months for the OASIS process, assuming NO need to modify the spec draft in any way . See https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/50807/Planning-DITA-1.3.pdf for more information. Please look at the PDF referenced above in order to understand the OASIS processes and the time frame that they impose. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 8:52 PM, Alan Houser wrote: Colleagues, I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ... support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their implementations. Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk irrelevance. Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable. We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec development progresses. Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to this discussion. -Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php Attachment: smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Reminder -- The TC needs a copy of the current LwDITA spec draft for the meeting tomorrow. PDF is fine, and no need for OASIS styling. I'll build from the GitHub repo tomorrow morning, if needed. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 9:26 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote: 'm happy to discuss fast-tracking the LwDITA spec; I've been trying to do so since 2016 or earlier, beginning with insisting that the subcommittee issue the committee note. Two things: It would be helpful for the TC to see the current state of the LwDITA spec. We understand that it is a draft document. I can create a PDF from the content in the LwDITA repo, if needed. The LwDITA spec editors need to understand the reality of the spec approval timeline. The LwDITA spec needs to be approved by the TC and then sent through the OASIS process. After TC approval, there is a minimum of six months for the OASIS process, assuming NO need to modify the spec draft in any way . See https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/50807/Planning-DITA-1.3.pdf for more information. Please look at the PDF referenced above in order to understand the OASIS processes and the time frame that they impose. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 8:52 PM, Alan Houser wrote: Colleagues, I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ... support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their implementations. Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk irrelevance. Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable. We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec development progresses. Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to this discussion. -Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php

Hi Kris, We don t have a functional map there. You can explore and try to build something. Thank you, Carlos On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:04 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: Reminder -- The TC needs a copy of the current LwDITA spec draft for the meeting tomorrow. PDF is fine, and no need for OASIS styling. I'll build from the GitHub repo tomorrow morning, if needed. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 9:26 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote: 'm happy to discuss fast-tracking the LwDITA spec; I've been trying to do so since 2016 or earlier, beginning with insisting that the subcommittee issue the committee note. Two things: It would be helpful for the TC to see the current state of the LwDITA spec. We understand that it is a draft document. I can create a PDF from the content in the LwDITA repo, if needed. The LwDITA spec editors need to understand the reality of the spec approval timeline. The LwDITA spec needs to be approved by the TC and then sent through the OASIS process. After TC approval, there is a minimum of six months for the OASIS process, assuming NO need to modify the spec draft in any way . See https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/50807/Planning-DITA-1.3.pdf for more information. Please look at the PDF referenced above in order to understand the OASIS processes and the time frame that they impose. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 8:52 PM, Alan Houser wrote: Colleagues, I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ... support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their implementations. Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk irrelevance. Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable. We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec development progresses. Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to this discussion. -Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php -- -- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication Chair, Hispanic/Latino Faculty & Staff Caucus Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201 Attachment: smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Best that I could get. I'm a little confused by the lack of functional maps -- I built a map and included element-reference, attribute, and conformance topics. I could not find architectural spec topics ... Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/4/2019 8:26 PM, Carlos Evia wrote: Hi Kris, We don t have a functional map there. You can explore and try to build something. Thank you, Carlos On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:04 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: Reminder -- The TC needs a copy of the current LwDITA spec draft for the meeting tomorrow. PDF is fine, and no need for OASIS styling. I'll build from the GitHub repo tomorrow morning, if needed. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 9:26 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote: 'm happy to discuss fast-tracking the LwDITA spec; I've been trying to do so since 2016 or earlier, beginning with insisting that the subcommittee issue the committee note. Two things: It would be helpful for the TC to see the current state of the LwDITA spec. We understand that it is a draft document. I can create a PDF from the content in the LwDITA repo, if needed. The LwDITA spec editors need to understand the reality of the spec approval timeline. The LwDITA spec needs to be approved by the TC and then sent through the OASIS process. After TC approval, there is a minimum of six months for the OASIS process, assuming NO need to modify the spec draft in any way . See https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/50807/Planning-DITA-1.3.pdf for more information. Please look at the PDF referenced above in order to understand the OASIS processes and the time frame that they impose. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 8:52 PM, Alan Houser wrote: Colleagues, I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ... support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their implementations. Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk irrelevance. Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable. We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec development progresses. Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to this discussion. -Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php -- -- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication Chair, Hispanic/Latino Faculty & Staff Caucus Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201 Attachment: kje-lwdita.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Thank you. A to do item for next week is to schedule a spec building tutorial with Robert. That was an agenda item from the last LwDITA SC call. On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:53 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: Best that I could get. I'm a little confused by the lack of functional maps -- I built a map and included element-reference, attribute, and conformance topics. I could not find architectural spec topics ... Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/4/2019 8:26 PM, Carlos Evia wrote: Hi Kris, We don t have a functional map there. You can explore and try to build something. Thank you, Carlos On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:04 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: Reminder -- The TC needs a copy of the current LwDITA spec draft for the meeting tomorrow. PDF is fine, and no need for OASIS styling. I'll build from the GitHub repo tomorrow morning, if needed. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 9:26 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote: 'm happy to discuss fast-tracking the LwDITA spec; I've been trying to do so since 2016 or earlier, beginning with insisting that the subcommittee issue the committee note. Two things: It would be helpful for the TC to see the current state of the LwDITA spec. We understand that it is a draft document. I can create a PDF from the content in the LwDITA repo, if needed. The LwDITA spec editors need to understand the reality of the spec approval timeline. The LwDITA spec needs to be approved by the TC and then sent through the OASIS process. After TC approval, there is a minimum of six months for the OASIS process, assuming NO need to modify the spec draft in any way . See https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/50807/Planning-DITA-1.3.pdf for more information. Please look at the PDF referenced above in order to understand the OASIS processes and the time frame that they impose. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 8:52 PM, Alan Houser wrote: Colleagues, I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ... support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their implementations. Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk irrelevance. Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable. We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec development progresses. Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to this discussion. -Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php -- -- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication Chair, Hispanic/Latino Faculty & Staff Caucus Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201 -- -- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication Chair, Hispanic/Latino Faculty & Staff Caucus Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201 Attachment: smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Robert and his entire family have the flu. And he'd probably be the first person to point you to me or Bob Thomas, if you are trying to build with the OASIS-branded plug-ins. I'll be happy to help you with building. I've handled the builds since DITA 1.2. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/4/2019 8:57 PM, Carlos Evia wrote: Thank you. A to do item for next week is to schedule a spec building tutorial with Robert. That was an agenda item from the last LwDITA SC call. On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:53 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: Best that I could get. I'm a little confused by the lack of functional maps -- I built a map and included element-reference, attribute, and conformance topics. I could not find architectural spec topics ... Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/4/2019 8:26 PM, Carlos Evia wrote: Hi Kris, We don t have a functional map there. You can explore and try to build something. Thank you, Carlos On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:04 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: Reminder -- The TC needs a copy of the current LwDITA spec draft for the meeting tomorrow. PDF is fine, and no need for OASIS styling. I'll build from the GitHub repo tomorrow morning, if needed. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 9:26 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote: 'm happy to discuss fast-tracking the LwDITA spec; I've been trying to do so since 2016 or earlier, beginning with insisting that the subcommittee issue the committee note. Two things: It would be helpful for the TC to see the current state of the LwDITA spec. We understand that it is a draft document. I can create a PDF from the content in the LwDITA repo, if needed. The LwDITA spec editors need to understand the reality of the spec approval timeline. The LwDITA spec needs to be approved by the TC and then sent through the OASIS process. After TC approval, there is a minimum of six months for the OASIS process, assuming NO need to modify the spec draft in any way . See https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/50807/Planning-DITA-1.3.pdf for more information. Please look at the PDF referenced above in order to understand the OASIS processes and the time frame that they impose. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 8:52 PM, Alan Houser wrote: Colleagues, I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ... support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their implementations. Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk irrelevance. Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable. We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec development progresses. Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to this discussion. -Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php -- -- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication Chair, Hispanic/Latino Faculty & Staff Caucus Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201 -- -- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication Chair, Hispanic/Latino Faculty & Staff Caucus Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201

I know. Thank you. The call was about automating builds from the repo with Travis. I m pretty sure that you were at the SC call weeks ago when we volunteered Robert for the tutorial. We are not ready for OASIS-branded deliverables. On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 9:06 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: Robert and his entire family have the flu. And he'd probably be the first person to point you to me or Bob Thomas, if you are trying to build with the OASIS-branded plug-ins. I'll be happy to help you with building. I've handled the builds since DITA 1.2. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/4/2019 8:57 PM, Carlos Evia wrote: Thank you. A to do item for next week is to schedule a spec building tutorial with Robert. That was an agenda item from the last LwDITA SC call. On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:53 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: Best that I could get. I'm a little confused by the lack of functional maps -- I built a map and included element-reference, attribute, and conformance topics. I could not find architectural spec topics ... Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/4/2019 8:26 PM, Carlos Evia wrote: Hi Kris, We don t have a functional map there. You can explore and try to build something. Thank you, Carlos On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:04 PM Kristen James Eberlein < kris@eberleinconsulting.com > wrote: Reminder -- The TC needs a copy of the current LwDITA spec draft for the meeting tomorrow. PDF is fine, and no need for OASIS styling. I'll build from the GitHub repo tomorrow morning, if needed. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 9:26 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote: 'm happy to discuss fast-tracking the LwDITA spec; I've been trying to do so since 2016 or earlier, beginning with insisting that the subcommittee issue the committee note. Two things: It would be helpful for the TC to see the current state of the LwDITA spec. We understand that it is a draft document. I can create a PDF from the content in the LwDITA repo, if needed. The LwDITA spec editors need to understand the reality of the spec approval timeline. The LwDITA spec needs to be approved by the TC and then sent through the OASIS process. After TC approval, there is a minimum of six months for the OASIS process, assuming NO need to modify the spec draft in any way . See https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/50807/Planning-DITA-1.3.pdf for more information. Please look at the PDF referenced above in order to understand the OASIS processes and the time frame that they impose. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 2/3/2019 8:52 PM, Alan Houser wrote: Colleagues, I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ... support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their implementations. Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk irrelevance. Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable. We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec development progresses. Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to this discussion. -Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. 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