DITA TC Meeting

When:  Oct 25, 2005 from 08:00 to 09:00 (PT)
Description: DITA Technical Committtee teleconference USA Toll Free Number: 866-566-4838 USA Toll Number: +1-210-280-1707 PASSCODE: 185771

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Agenda: 8:00-8:05 Roll call 8:05-8:10 Review/approve minutes from previous meeting http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/14960/TC-Meeting-Minutes-2005-10-18.txt New issues: Syntax Diagram content model bug (decision needed on how to fix) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00107.html Issues tracking: - Features list - Definition of Status Phases: - In Progress: - Author(s) still working on proposal - Submitted: - Proposal has been submitted to TC for consideration; needs TC decision (vote) in order to proceed. - Proposal Approved: - TC has approved the proposal; authors working to complete the design - Design Approved: - Final design of the proposal has been approved. - Postponed: - Proposal has been postponed to post-1.1. - Proposal Approved: - #20 Extensible metadata attributes - #11 Create elements for text attributes with translatable text - #40 Keyref architecture - #23 Embed version numbers into catalogs - Design Approved: - # 9 New DATA element - #12 Make universal attributes completely universal - In progress: - # 4 Use subset of OASIS xNAL standard for addresses - # 5 Add ANSI warning labels as addition to element - #17 Conref improvements - #19 Introduce new, more general task type - #14 Specialize glossary entry and definition elements - #41/42 Allow expanding/contracting the shortdesc model - # 6 Make @role (and other enumerated attribues) unenumerated - #35 Support foreign content vocabularies such as MathML and SVG - #43 Semantic (implicit) linking - #45b Add page range indexing elements - Submitted: - #45: Add See, See Also indexing elements - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00072.html (latest) - #45a: Add sort order indexing elements - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00073.html (latest) - #47 Structured Sections - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00045.html - #34: Constraints - restriction without specialization (was replacement domains) - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00071.html (latest) - #32: Domain and topic integration - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00048.html - #8: Allow tm to contain images or logo content - http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15055/IssueNumber08_.htm - #38: Bookmap / bkinfo revision - http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15056/IssueNumber38.htm - Postponed to Post 1.1: - #37 Reconciling topic and elements - Post 1.1: everything else Spec and process issues (from Yas's notes, other comments): Update DITA 1.0 DTD/Schema specification (bug fixes and comment edits) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200507/msg00058.html among others Naming convention http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200509/msg00024.html (approved 2005-09-30) OASIS artifact naming guidelines (to follow where applicable) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200507/maillist.html Relax the related links content model so it can be empty (more of a fix issue) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200509/msg00050.html (proposal) http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/14855/TC-Meeting-Minutes-04-October-2005.txt (approved for 1.1 timing) Documenting DITA design principles (not approved yet) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00005.html Details in the DITA spec--Priestley ("There are some cases... where the spec needs to be updated") http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00059.html - behavior of conref with attributes on the referencing element - why a content fragment has to be addressed within a topic Styling options for conditional text Recognizing DITA documents New worked proposals (unnumbered) from members: Extensibility of DITA through new attributes http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200508/msg00065.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200508/msg00069.html and following Styling Options for Conditional Text http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200508/msg00066.html and following http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200509/msg00025.html Recognizing DITA Documents http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200508/msg00067.html and following Start of documenting DITA design principles (Paul Prescod) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00005.html Module Registry proposal (Bruce Esrig) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00097.html 8:50-8:55 Announcements/Opens 8:55 Adjourn

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Minutes:

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Attendance:

Achieved quorum: true
Counts toward voter eligibility: true

Individual Attendance
  • Members: 21 of 68 (30%)
  • Voting Members: 17 of 21 (80%) (used for quorum calculation)
Company Attendance
  • Companies: 11 of 29 (37%)
  • Voting Companies: 10 of 13 (76%)

Quorum rule: 51% of voting members