DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 30 September 2008

DITA Technical 
Committee Meeting Minutes: 30 September 2008

 

Chaired by Don Day 
<>
Minutes recorded 
by Bruce Nevin <>

 

The DITA Technical 
Committee met on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 at 08:00am PT for
60 
minutes.

 

1.  Roll 
call

 

    We 
have quorum.

 

2.  Approve 
minutes from previous business meeting:
    * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200809/msg00025.html 
(23 September 2008)

 

    
Accepted by acclamation.

 

3.  Reports of Subcommittees and Affiliated 
TCs (as needed)

 

    * 
OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee (Sept. 2)
    * OASIS DITA 
Learning Content Subcommittee (Sept.9)
    * OASIS DITA 
Machine Industry Subcommittee (Sept. 16)
    * OASIS DITA 
Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee (Sept. 23)
    * 
OASIS DITA for Enterprise Business Documents Subcommittee (Sept. 
30)
    * OASIS DITA Help Subcommittee (Oct. 
7)
        Stan Doherty reported on the 
subcommittee activities.
        
Developing sample/test files for 
specializations.
          Is 
management of these responsibility of TC or of 
SC?
          Will support 
packages for 1.3. 
          
Need validation before available to 
vendors.
          TC can 
provide as part of doc 
set.
          Can support in 
Wiki knowledge base.
          
SC to own them while under 
development.
        Best practices guide 
scheduled for review October 23.
    * OASIS DITA Adoption TC 

 

4.  
Business:

 

    
1.  ITEM: DITA 1.2 Specification Review Assignments 

        * http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Draft_DITA_1.2_Specification_Review_Assignments

 

        Language 
Reference items complete (Robert 
Anderson) 

 

        
CONTINUED.

 

    
2.  ITEM: OASIS hosting of a Web GUI 

        * Review progress -- no 
report.

 

        CONTINUED.

 

    
3.  New ITEM: Cascading/Inheritance of default values 

        Conclusion reached, but must 
be written up and presented.

 

        CONTINUED.

 

    
4.  ITEM: Review 1.2 list for items that should be considered for 
1.3

        * Update the DITA 1.3 list 
on the Wiki (Gershon)

 

    5. New ITEM: SC proposal, DITA for Technical Standards 

        http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200809/msg00027.html (Priestley) 

        http://dita.xml.org/wiki/dita-for-technical-standards-dts (discussion) 

        

        Michael will enter the formal 
OASIS proposal and act 
as convener.

 

       ACTION: 
Don: notify Mary of this.

 

    
6.  NOTE: latest DITA 1.2 draft uploads: 

        * Lang spec ToCJS: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200809/msg00014.html 
(10 Sep) 
        * Lang spec source: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200808/msg00002.html 
(4 Aug) 
        * Lang spec CHM: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200809/msg00015.html 
(10 Sep) 
        * DTDs: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200808/msg00011.html 
(11 Aug) 
        * XSDs: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200808/msg00027.html 
(16 Aug) 

 

    
7.  Announcements/Opens

 

        Problems connecting with 
Skype.

        EBay/Skype may be blocking 
calls to an IBM number. 
        
IBM has aggregation numbers for UK 
and Switzerland.

 

        ACTION: Don to send concern to 
Mary McRae to determine OASIS 
response.
        ACTION: Don to post 
access numbers to the TC list.