DITA Adoption TC Meeting Minutes -- 7 June 2010

Minutes for the
DITA Adoption TC meeting

Committee meeting – 7 June 2010, 11 am to 12 am ET

Roll call – Gershon Joseph, JoAnn Hackos, Marc Speyer, Deb Bissantz, Frank Miller, Bruce Nevin, Troy Klukewich, Chris
Goolsby, Briana Wherry. 

 

Regrets from Paul Grosso, Joe Gelb, Donald Rohmer, Bryan
Schnabel

Accept minutes from previous business meeting on 21 June 2010 – JoAnn
proposed, Gershon seconded

Next meeting: 21 June 2010

Reviewed Open action items with these changes:

Close: Action item 0001 assigned to Brenda Oakley

Close: Action Item 0007 assigned to JoAnn Hackos

JoAnn will close Action item 0012 as soon as the PDF
processes correctly.

Business

1. ITEM: DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec Update

The DITA TC has voted to approve the DITA 1.2 specification.
At present, the TC is working on changes to the format required by OASIS plus some
additions to the content. These changes are expected to delay the scheduled
OASIS voting process by one month.

 

2. ITEM: DITA 1.2 recognition. Urged Adoption TC members to
add to the adoption list for DITA 1.2 features. At present, much of the
adoption ideas are still under discussion at each company.

 

3. ITEM:
The committee voted unanimously to approved the DITA 1.2 Feature Article: Task
Model. Proposed by JoAnn; Seconded by Gershon. JoAnn will update
according to the editorial changes from Gershon and will update KAVI, the home
page, and dita.xml.org.

 

4. ITEM: Discussion of the Tools
Awareness article begun by Su-Laine. Considered the feasibility of preparing
such an article to be within the domain of the Adoption TC. All in agreement. Discussed
a sequence of activities starting with this article on tools awareness,
followed by a tools evaluation checklist (Gershon as responsibility), a test
suite (possibly with Anna R), and, eventually, a certification body. Discussed
that the certification body would have to be outside the control of the TC as
an independent organization.

Marc volunteered to turn Su-Laine’s draft into a PDF for readability.

 

5. ITEM: Marc will update the KAVI
standards list with Approved Doc for the domain feature article. Joe Gelb
should do the same for his article. Tony S needs to add the revision note to
his latest update.

 

Need to ask all authors to use the
Replace function in KAVI rather than submitted their articles multiple times
with versions. KAVI does provide us with version control. Gershon will ask Mary
M if she can get someone to clean up the Calendar Docs list. We should not use
Calendar doc for the feature articles. We should all use Standards Doc for the
feature articles. 

 

6. ITEM: Reviewed the list of feature articles. Troy K. will
follow up with John H about the L&T feature article. JoAnn will pin Robin
about the Machine Industry. Gershon and JoAnn will add their names to the “working
without a CMS” 1.1 list.

 

Meeting adjourned at 9 am Pacific Standard Time.

 

JoAnn Hackos PhD

Co-chair

DITA Adoption TC

 

 

 

 

 

 

JoAnn Hackos PhD

President

Comtech Services, Inc.



Skype joannhackos