TC Meeting

When:  Jun 21, 2005 from 08:00 to 09:00 (PT)
Description: USA Toll Free Number: 866-566-4838 USA Toll Number: +1-210-280-1707 PASSCODE: 185771

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Agenda: MEETING AGENDA -- 21 June 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ** Teleconference ** -------------------- USA Toll Free Number: 866-566-4838 USA Toll Number: +1-210-280-1707 PASSCODE: 185771 ** Agenda ** ------------ Today's Goal: Complete assignments list 8:00-8:05 Roll Call 8:05-8:10 Review/approve minutes from 14 June - http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200506/msg00015.html 8:05-8:50 Assignments - We'll go through the list of 1.1 requirements and take volunteers for each item. - Note: Only *members* can take on assignments. If observers or others want to contribute, they need to become a member (as per Mary McRae's email). - List is located here -- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/13091/DITA-TC-1dot1PublicRequirementsWithEffort.htm - For each assignment: - Now: Give a rough estimate of time required to complete the item - After meeting: Fill out the definition template for each assignment (indicating scope, use case, technical requirements, costs and benefits). - Template located here: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/13167/IssueNumberXX%28template%29.zip - Name your completed templates like this: IssueNumberXX.dita - Post your completed templates to the Drafts area of the DITA TC: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/documents.php 8:50-8:55 Announcements, opens - Please send your tallies of additional "top five" requirements to the TC List by EOD 24 June 2005. - Next meeting, we'll try to decide on "must haves" for 1.1 release, based on new rankings. - This discussion may take more than one meeting! - We can then take that information and create a rough 1.1 schedule with milestones 8:55 Adjourn

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Minutes: MEETING MINUTES -- 21 June 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE *** Please see Action Items and Decision Summary at the end *** DITA Technical Committee website: - Public: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita - Members only: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/ ** Minutes ** ------------ Today's Goal: Complete assignments list 8:00-8:05 Roll Call - 14 of 24 voting members => QUORUM - See website for attendance details http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/event.php?event_id=8028 - There were at least two Observers whose attendance was not recorded because I couldn't get their names. If you were one of them, please email Seraphim. 8:05-8:10 Review/approve minutes from 14 June - http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200506/msg00015.html - Chris Wong says he did *not* say the following. Not sure who did say it. (Under "Proposal for next 2 weeks") -- - Chris Wong -- Perhaps some items can be developed outside the TC, and when they're more developed we can roll them into the spec. - Minutes approved by acclamation. 8:05-8:50 Assignments - We went through the list of 1.1 requirements and took volunteers for each item. - Note: Only *members* can take on assignments. If observers or others want to contribute, they need to become a member (as per Mary McRae's email). - Clarification from Michael Priestley -- - They do not have to be *voting* members - There are "members" and "voting members". The attendance requirements to be a "voting member" are stricter than to be a "member". (There are *no* attendance requirements to be a member.) - See email from Mary McRae for further clarification -- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200506/msg00019.html - Thus, if someone wants to volunteer for an assignment, we'll put them on the list for now, and try to figure out how to get them into regular membership as soon as possible. - According to Mary McRae, if you want to be a member, you can -- just let Don, France, or Seraphim know, and we can change your status. - New assignments list -- - We completed assignments (though some items had no volunteers). - New assignments list to be located here -- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/13091/DITA-TC-1dot1PublicRequirementsWithEffort.htm - Seraphim has Action Item to fill in the names - If you volunteered for an assignment: - Fill out the definition template for your assignment: - Template located here: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/13184/IssueNumberXX%28template%29.zip - Name your completed templates like this: IssueNumberXX.dita - Post your completed templates to the Drafts area of the DITA TC: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/documents.php - The writeup *must* include a time estimate. - Next meeting: - For each assignment that has been written up, we will take a vote to decide whether or not to proceed. - If the assignment is approved, we will put it into the schedule. - We will also determine if the item is a "must have" or a "nice to have", based on the number of tallies received for that item. - We'll build an overall schedule based on this approach. We'll use the "must have"/"nice to have" to prioritize, if needed. 8:50-8:55 Announcements, opens - Please send your tallies of additional "top five" requirements to the TC List by EOD 24 June 2005. ** Summary of Decisions ** -------------------------- - No formal decisions. ** 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 >> 6/21/05 -- not done yet. 098 All, 6/14/05 -- At 6/21 meeting, break down the 1.1 requirements list into "must haves" and "nice-to-haves". Estimate time requirements for each "must have" -- development time and TC discussion/decision time. Build schedule based on that. We also need to determine (for each item) Scope, Use Case, Technical Requirements, and Cost/Benefit. CLOSED, 6/21/05. We're taking a slightly different approach, detailed above. 099 All, 6/14/05 -- By 6/20, indicate which issues you want to volunteer for -- post to the TC list. CLOSED, 6/21/05. 100 All non-members, 6/21 -- If you want to be a "Member" (with no attendance requirements), send an email to Don, France, or Seraphim, and we will change your status. You *must* be a "Member" or "Voting Member" if you want to participate in the 1.1 changes. 101 All assignment volunteers, 6/21 -- Complete the writeups of your 1.1 assignments, and submit to the Drafts area of the Documents section of the Members Website of the TC. Use the template located here -- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/13184/IssueNumberXX%28template%29.zip 102 Seraphim, 6/21 -- Fill in the volunteers' names on the Assignments List -- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/13091/DITA-TC-1dot1PublicRequirementsWithEffort.htm 103 (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 (6/14/05) Formalize an action on Robert's DTD corrections list: - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00021.html - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200505/msg00039.html 017 (6/14/05) OASIS invitation to participate on OASIS Adoption Forum Program Committee 018 (6/14/05) Certification for tool vendors who want to support DITA: discuss whether and how to do this (ie, for CM, translation, editors, tools in general) 016 019 (placeholder for next)

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Attendance:

Achieved quorum: true
Counts toward voter eligibility: true

Individual Attendance
  • Members: 16 of 58 (27%)
  • Voting Members: 14 of 24 (58%) (used for quorum calculation)
Company Attendance
  • Companies: 10 of 23 (43%)
  • Voting Companies: 10 of 14 (71%)

Quorum rule: 51% of voting members