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Subject: DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE -- MEETING MINUTES -- 17 AUG 2004
DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE -- MEETING MINUTES -- 17 AUG 2004
*** Please see Action Items and Decision Summary at the end ***
** Agenda **
------------
1. Roll call
2. Review/approve minutes from 10 August
3. Review/revise intro section for the initial specifications.
- Content:
- Latest versions:
-
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/8636/dita
spec-intro-08102004.chm
-
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/8677/dita
spec-intro-08102004.pdf
- Schedule:
- 17 Aug 2004
- First major milestone -- complete first draft of
first section and send out for review.
- Begin review of 1st section.
- 07 Sep 2004
- Complete review/revision of 1st section; begin
review of 2nd section.
- 28 Sep 2004
- Complete review/revision of 2nd section; begin
review of 3rd section.
- 19 Oct 2004
- Complete review/revision of 3rd section; beginning
of final review
- 02 Nov 2004
- Complete final review
- 16 Nov 2004
- Release 1.0 spec to OASIS
4. New tasks--discuss DTD cleanup for specification, for
example:
- Edit and normalize formatting, comments, copyrights,
licenses, etc..
- Test the DTDs and Schemas
- Test suites for conformance testing? methodologies for
testing?
- Implementation/interoperability tips for users, vendors
5. Progress on remaining issues currently in discussion.
- Namespace for DITA?
- Which version of CALS table model?
- Conref and XInclude?
6. AOB?
** Minutes **
-------------
1. Roll call
- Members -- 14/28 >>> We have quorum.
- Paul Grosso
- Yas Etessam
- Mike Wethington
- Wendy Hambleton
- Don Day
- Paul Antonov
- Mary McRae
- Shawn Jordan
- Eliot Kimber
- Seraphim Larsen
- Bruce Esrig
- Rob Frankland
- Stanley Doherty
- Sharon Veach
- Observers and visitors --
- David Brainard
- Erik Hennum
- Nancy Harrison
- Eric Sirois
- Karl Best
2. Review/approve minutes from 10 August
- Some amendments captured in the TC list.
- Action Items and Issues were reviewed.
- Minutes approved as amended.
3. Review/revise intro section for the initial specifications.
- Content:
- Latest versions:
-
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/8636/dita
spec-intro-08102004.chm
-
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/8677/dita
spec-intro-08102004.pdf
- Schedule:
- 17 Aug 2004
- First major milestone -- complete first draft of
first section and send out for review.
- Begin review of 1st section.
- 07 Sep 2004
- Complete review/revision of 1st section; begin
review of 2nd section.
- 28 Sep 2004
- Complete review/revision of 2nd section; begin
review of 3rd section.
- 19 Oct 2004
- Complete review/revision of 3rd section; beginning
of final review
- 02 Nov 2004
- Complete final review
- 16 Nov 2004
- Release 1.0 spec to OASIS
- Discussion --
- Discussion ensued about the use of the phrase
"document type" in the specification.
- We need to discuss this on the TC list and bring
it to resolution. Erik Hennum to take this
action.
- Introduction --
- We need to clarify the term "domain".
- MIME-type section --
- Is this necessary?
- Erik -- Before discussing the coverage of the MIME
type in the spec, shouldn't we discuss whether DITA
should even have a MIME type? Is it a requirement for
Spec 1.0?
- Don -- Let's ask Michael to clarify it in the spec.
- Namespaces and identifiers --
- Still issues to be resolved -- there's nothing here
yet.
- Move "definitions and background concepts" to the top of
the list in the introduction. Also add the diagram that
shows the relationship between the standard topic types.
- Several people agree this is a good idea.
- How to manage the source files?
- Keep the master copy on the TC website?
- Keep it there as a single zip file.
4. NOT COVERED -- New tasks--discuss DTD cleanup for
specification, for example:
- Edit and normalize formatting, comments, copyrights,
licenses, etc..
- Test the DTDs and Schemas
- Test suites for conformance testing? methodologies for
testing?
- Implementation/interoperability tips for users, vendors
5. NOT COVERED -- Progress on remaining issues currently in
discussion.
- Namespace for DITA?
- Which version of CALS table model?
- Conref and XInclude?
6. NOT COVERED -- AOB?
** Summary of Decisions **
--------------------------
- Approved minutes of 10 August.
** Action Required **
---------------------
017 Shawn Jordan -- Post to the TC list his ideas about general
extensibility and the creation of new elements not
necessarily descended from the Topic element. Still open
(not an immediate deliverable -- for post-1.0).
021 JoAnn Hackos, Michael Priestley -- Summarize the discussion
of substitution and post to the TC list. Still pending as of
7/20/04.
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.
024 Eliot -- Find out exactly how to entitle the subsections
within the two specifications (as "sub specification", or as
"Part 1, part 2, etc.", or in some other way).
- Eliot sent email to specification support person, but
no response back yet. (6/29/04)
- Also Eliot should ask if OASIS can provide any
examples of well-written specs (in regard to content,
not format)
- Carl recommends that we look at the SAML spec as
a good example. The WSF is also a good example.
DocBook is also in pretty good shape. (8/17/04)
- Bruce Esrig looked at the OWL spec (Web Ontology)
(W3C) and thought it was an excellent example.
(Non-OASIS). (8/17/04)
- Closed (8/17/04)
026 Michael -- See how Conref and XInclude contrast with SGML.
Still pending as of 7/20/04.
027 Erik Hennum -- Wrap up his thoughts about Conref and
XInclude and put them on the list. Still pending as of
8/17/04.
036 Shawn Jordan -- Investigate where to point the DITA
namespace -- where does the URL point? Maybe an OASIS page
that describes what DITA does, etc. Still pending 8/17/04.
037 Don -- Find someone to investigate the impact on those with
legacy content of moving from the CALS model to the HTML
model. Posted to TC list; closed 8/17/04.
040 Don -- Cull the past minutes and discussion list to create
an inventory of all the things we need to close on in order
to create the 1.0 spec. Create a list of these items and
post it in the Documents area of the website. >>> This will
be ongoing.
041 All -- Send comments on spec 1.0 to JoAnn this week. >>>
Don posted something to the list.
042 All -- Consider need for and practicality of 2-3 day
face-to-face meeting in late October in order to resolve
final technical issues in advance of final editorial work.
043 Michael Priestley -- Add a straw-man audience statement to
the introduction.
044 All -- Review the .chm file sent out by Michael Priestley
located at
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/8636/dita
spec-intro-08102004.chm
and post comments to the TC list.
045 Erik Hennum -- Start discussion on the TC list about the use
of the phrase "document type" in the specification.
046 Don? -- Incorporate review comments from today's discussion
into the 1.0 draft (8/17/04).
** Issues to be Resolved **
---------------------------
005 All -- What should the scope and length of the conceptual
introduction be? >>> We'll get this from JoAnn.
006 All -- Should DITA specialization mechanism be documented in
a separate specification in order to make it easier to use
in other XML applications that otherwise have no
relationship to topic-based writing? >>> Ongoing.
007 All -- Decide which version of the CALS table model to use
-- either the full CALS model, or the CALS Exchange model.
>>> On agenda for today.
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