Meeting Minutes 3 March 2012

JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
President
Comtech Services Inc.
710 Kipling Street, Suite 400
Denver, CO 80215

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Minutes for DITA Technical Communication Subcommittee meeting 3 March 2012, 11 am to 12 noon ET  Roll call 11:00 - Quorum
Attending: Tom Cihak, Seth Park, Dave Hlefinstine, Gershon Joseph, Rob Hanna, Sue Blaisdel, Jane Credlund, JoAnn Hackos
Regrets: Kris Eberlein, Kristen Toole
Next 19 March 2012, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET  Approved Minutes: Approved minutes of 23 Jan 2012
Business  1. ITEM: Release Management

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Seth will get template for the phase 2 proposal for release management.
	Gershon -- discussion of traceability to the change agent

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URI to other documents 	Tom's is in a separate document with information about the change 	Consider a change history domain  	Book change history as a model--edited date, review date  	Change event 	 	Could recommend deprecation of critdate  	Use <data> href to point to specific item that has changed -- ability to format with change bars  2. ITEM: change tracking
	Comment at DITA TC that change tracking is an XML issue not a DITA issue  	Discussion of marking the text -- discussed the complexities, would not include delimiting factor  	Rob has another idea and wants to develop another proposal on this  	Seth explained that users can still use "flag" attributes 	 	Rob--change history is then maintained in two places -- suggests pointers to changed content  	JoAnn -- what about deletions?  	Rob -- deletions would remain for review cycle vs publishing -- such as strike-through content  3. ITEM

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Troubleshooting documentation  	Three proposals for committee to take to the phase 2 proposal template 	 	No details in discussion about the substructure of the additional elements  	(steptrouble, tasktrouble, trouble value on type attribute)  	Sue will discuss with BobT about handling proposals. Ask Bob to attend next meeting.  Adjourn 12:00 noon ET.