OASIS DITA TC Meeting

When:  Mar 20, 2007 from 08:00 to 09:00 (PT)
Description: Toll Numbers: USA +1-210-280-1707 Toll-Free Numbers: USA 866-566-4838 Participant Passcode: 185771

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Agenda: DITA TC Wiki: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/FrontPage 8:00-8:05 Roll call Approve minutes from previous business meeting: * (12 March 2007) Business: 1. ITEM: Ranking for 1.2 list 1. ITEM: Review completeness of DITA 1.2 Specification Requirements * http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_Specification_1%2e2_Requirements 1. Subcommittee updates? 8:50-8:55 Announcements/Opens 8:55 Adjourn

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Minutes: MEETING MINUTES -- 20 March 2007 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (Minutes taken by JoAnn Hackos (joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com) Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2007 Time: 08:00am - 09:00am PT DITA Technical Committee Web site: - Public: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita - Members only: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/ - Wiki: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/ - Roll call -> We have quorum - Review/approve minutes from previous meeting: - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200703/msg00037.html (13 March 2007) - Don moves to accept the minutes as read, JoAnn Hackos seconds, no objections, minutes approved. - Review and vote to close the 1.2 list of potential requirements: - (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200703/msg00017.html - Discussion of context-sensitive help - Robert -- new items added by members during the past week are not yet included in the list. - Don and Michael -- discussion of Tony Self's proposal for context-sensitive help. - Robert notes that IBM had released a specialization for context-sensitive help in Source Forge. However this is specifically for Eclipse and will not apply to other help systems. - Michael improved support for context-sensitive help should be work on - Discussion of the scope of the 1.2 specification - Paul G -- What should the scope of the 1.2 effort be? need to define the roadmap - Michael is for everyone to list top 5 choices to produce a shorter list. Items that don't make anyone's lists will be lowest priority or off the list. - Don -- The hope is to complete the 1.2 specification in one year. - Michael -- should include a bug fix release and major functions that have been waiting a long time for implementation. Definitely do the simple stuff. - Paul G -- we are always trying to keep things simple and small. Will always take longer than we'd like. - Discssuion of various proposals - Eliot K -- add to the keyref proposal/indirection from HYTIME spec - Paul G -- reviewed all Paul's submissions and are all in place on the 1.2 list - Don -- entry in place for the context-sensitive help proposal - Erik H -- specification on topic refs in maps, 12047. Similar to topic groups and topic head in map. No affect on the bookmap architecture. - Yas -- version numbers are part of 12001 - Amber -- clarify printonly, which has been done in 1.1 - Eliot -- why the glossary addition. 12005 not needed, already clarified. Machine industry proposals would be better as specializations. Should create a policy for the TC about what is a specialization and what should be in the base architecture. - Chris K -- how will we package DITA in the future? Certain of the machine industry proposals should become part of the base architecture. - DECISION: Chris K proposes that the list be frozen in 2 weeks. Decides to ask for a place holder for additional proposals from the machine industry SC. - Robert suggests to freeze now. Agreement that the list is now complete. - Eliot moved and Robert seconded to freeze the list now. Accepted with no objections. - Note: Any additions after this point will be consider on a case-by-case basis. - Announcement -- schedule an 11 am Eastern time meeting of the TC members attending the Content Management Strategies conference in Boston next week. JoAnn will make arrangements. --> Meeting adjourned.

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Attendance:
Meeting Statistics
Quorum rule 51% of voting members
Achieved quorum true
Counts toward voter eligibility true
Individual Attendance Members: 16 of 114 (14%)
Voting Members: 11 of 18 (61%) (used for quorum calculation)
Company Attendance Companies: 11 of 56 (19%)
Voting Companies: 8 of 13 (61%)