OASIS DITA Adoption Committee meeting minutes for September 21, 2009

Please send me any updates for errors or omissions. 

Kind Regards, Briana

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OASIS DITA Adoption Technical Committee

Meeting

21 September 2009 — 9 am Pacific Daylight Time

Quorum present

 

 

1. Regrets - Gershon Joseph, Sowmya Kannan, Joe Gelb

2. Paul Grosso moved to approve the minutes of the previous meeting, Kris
Eberlein seconded and none opposed.

3. Next Meeting – Confirmed as October 12, 2009

4. Previous Actions  - No updates at this time

5. Business

Item 1- DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec update (Kristen)

The DITA 1.2 Architectural Specification should be ready for review by the
adoption committee members from Oct 19 to November 1, 2009.  Joann
encourages us to review this as there have been a number of changes and updates
to DITA.

 

Item 2: DITA 1.2 Feature Overview: Referencing a Range of Elements (Joe) 

Joe has made the changes since the last meetings Review. However, Paul Grosso indicated
that one of his recommendations was not incorporated. This discrepancy was
reviewed again in the meeting as follows:

Under “Restrictions”, change the parentheses text from “or be
generalized to the same type 3” to “to be specialized from the same
type”.

Proposal by Kris Eberlein to make the minor wording change and publish to
DITA.XML.Org. Seconded by Kris Eberlein – JoAnn moved approval and Kris
seconded. Approved for publication.

 

Item 3: Conref push article (Kristen)

ACTION: Kris Eberlein to put in the Framework that Joe Gelb used for his
article with the Title Page and Copyright. 

Once this occurs, we can put this article up for approval for the next meeting.

ACTION: Joann to ask Kara Warburton about the Oasis Template for the articles.
If she has no luck there, to put out a request for a volunteer to create a
specialization and style file for the OASIS template.

 

ITEM 4: Glossary and Acronym articles

Tony Self version - 

ACTION: If members have not reviewed this yet, to please do so. 

ACTION: Joann to ask Tony to put this in the OASIS format.

Kara Warburton version - 

ACTION: Joann to fix the reference to the Technical Committee instead of the
Adoption Committee in the copyright.

Joann proposed that we accept Kara’s document “Glossary
Specialization Best Practice” with the change to the copyright and date.
Briana Wherry seconded. Approved for publication.

 

ITEM 5: Review the revised draft of the Generic Task Model feature description 

Confusion on terminology 

Committee should take this up as a recommendation about how these terms should
be labelled for implementers. Should it be called Task or Strict Task to
distinguish from General Task as this is confusing. 

Recommend that it should be Task and General Task, where general task is the
starting point for creating a specialization. This required clarification in
the article. However, the DTD refers to it as the Strict Task which still may
be confusing.

 

No other business.

 

Meeting was dismissed.