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The DITA TC Wiki serves the OASIS DITA TC for collaborative design work and for management of comment responses and other tracking documents.

Agenda for 22 May 2012 (in progress)

DITA TC Wiki: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/FrontPage

8:00-8:05 Roll call

• Regrets: Dick Hamilton

STANDING BUSINESS:

Approve minutes from previous business meeting:

• http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/46007/minutes20120515.txt (Day for 15 May 2012)

Active subcommittee and liaison efforts:

• OASIS DITA Adoption TC
• OASIS DITA Help Subcommittee
• OASIS DITA Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee (Bob Beims now on for June report)
• OASIS DITA Technical Communication Subcommittee
• New report each first TC meeting of a month.

• June: SIDSC

Announcements / Action items / E-mail to dita-comment list

BUSINESS:

1. DITA 1.3 proposals, stage 1: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_1.3_Proposals-triage

   • Ready for votes:
     • Proposal 13097: Troubleshooting topic (Hackos and Technical Communication SC)
     • Proposal 13111: Create an official domain for MathML (Kimber)

2. DITA 1.3 proposals, stage 2: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_1.3_Proposals-stage2

   • Ready for discussion:
   • Ready for vote:
     • Voting options are "Yes," "No," "No objections," "I don't understand the proposal," and "I have objections"
   • On hold; dependency on "Simple DITA" proposal

     • Proposal #13004: Scoped keys (Champion, Chris Nitchie) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44886/1-3proposal-13004.htm

3. Review of coverage of <indexterm> elements in DITA 1.2 spec

   • E-mail on the dita-comment list from Antenna House implementor: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201203/msg00045.html

4. ITEM: Conceptual Refinement for DITA 1.3: Navigation Tree

   • http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201202/msg00028.html (Eliot Kimber, 5 Feb 2012)

   • http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201202/msg00029.html (Michael Priestly, 5 Feb 2012)

   • http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201202/msg00030.html (Eliot Kimber, 5 February 2012)

   • http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201202/msg00053.html (Eliot Kimber, 19 Feb 2012)

   • Pending further detail from Eliot.
5. ITEM: Triage of DITA complexity list and potential solutions

   • Wiki page: "What do people (really) mean when they say "DITA is too complex"?

   • NEW: Stan's summary: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201106/msg00027.html

     • Closure pending open actions
     • (note completed action this week-are there take-aways to be tracked?)
6. ITEM: FAQ item about "Interaction between key resolution or key binding and conditional processing"

   • TC review the draft: “What is the interaction between key resolution or key binding and conditional processing?”: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/FAQ-items#Q.Whatistheinteractionbetweenkeyresolutionorkeybindingandconditionalprocessing.3F

     • Wiki page for review comments: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Review-FAQ-

     • Waiting for Kris to edit
     • Close once we're ready to post FAQ item on xml.org. (waiting for Kris's action)
7. ITEM: DITA 1.2 Survey results

   • http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201104/msg00006.html (Summary, posted by Buchholz)

   • http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201104/msg00007.html (Full, ")

   • Need TC's discussion on using this knowledge
8. ITEM: Review action items generated by this meeting

On-hold agenda items:

• TC discussion about DITA 1.3 packaging
• Review of survey results

  • Survey announcement: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201101/msg00069.html (JoAnn Hackos, Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:33:15 -0700)

  • Link to survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BFUN323SP/

8:50-8:55 PT Announcements/Opens

8:55 PT Adjourn

Working Documents

DITA 1.2

• DITA 1.2 errata

• Summary page of DITA 1.2 working documents

• All features added to DITA 1.2, with a pointer to the original approved proposal, and a pointer to the meeting where each proposal was approved

Have we mined these pages for any outstanding work? If so, move them to the DITA 1.2 summary page -- Eberlein, 18 December 2010

• Summary of task vs. general task, constraints, conref, and other related issues

• DITA_1.2_Implementation_Notes--items not directly related to Spec

• Fix_list_for_DITA_1.2

• DITA Perceptions (Managing Complexity)

DITA 1.3

• DITA 1.3 Proposal Process

  • DITA_1.3_Proposals - all proposals to be added here, before first review by the TC.

  • To be created: Proposals with initial acceptance (first pass by TC). Awaiting completed proposal document with proposed solution, to bring back to the TC.
  • To be created: Proposals reviewed and passed by the TC (solution makes sense). Awaiting complete specification update, to bring back to the TC.
  • To be created: Completed, approved, to be included in 1.3. Add to this list only after specification language is finished, reviewed by TC, and approved by TC.

• DITAProcessingSemantics (work in progress carried over from DITA 1.2)

• Documentation work deferred to DITA 1.3

DITA 2.0

• DITA_2.0_Proposals (unofficial, unapproved)

General

• Roadmap_for_DITA_development

• SourceControlPolicy for Subversion (SVN) repository

• SyntaxDiagram composition notes

• Timeline_for_draft-to-approval_process

• Archive_of_older_items_that_are_complete,_deprecated,_or_out-of-date

• DITA_Decorations

• BestPractices

• DitaProcessingInstructions

• DiceRelatedFeatureRequests

OASIS Web and Wiki pages

DITA TC

• DITA TC Public Page

• DITA TC Member Page

• DITA TC Wiki (this page)

• DITA comments

• DITA comments archive

• DITA TC page at dita.xml.org Eberlein, 18 December 2010: This page is out-of-date.

DITA Adoption TC

• DITA Adoption TC Public Page

• DITA Adoption TC Member Page

• DITA Adoption TC Wiki

The DITA Adoption TC and the DITA TC are separate OASIS TCs. They both focus on different aspects of DITA. Their work is complementary and is coordinated at a high level through overlapping membership.

The DITA Adoption TC is focused on educational and outreach activities to increase the awareness and usefulness of DITA. The Adoption TC includes an Editorial Board that maintains the DITA XML.org Focus Area.

The DITA TC is focused on developing the DITA specification as an OASIS Standard.

Kris Eberlein is the official liaison to the DITA Adoption TC.

DITA TC subcommittees

Previous agendas

See Summary page for previous agendas

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