Minutes of 29 June 2010 meeting

DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes
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The DITA Technical Committee met on 29 June 2010 at 08:00am PT

Chaired by Don Day <>
Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <>


Roll call
* Regrets: Dick Hamilton
> Quorum was achieved.


Approve minutes from previous business meeting: 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201006/msg00176.html (22 June Nevin, corrected) 
> Minutes accepted by acclamation.


Subcommittee/liaison reports

* OASIS DITA for Enterprise Business Documents Subcommittee (Bruce Nevin)
> Moved to next meeting.


Review open Action Items: 
* http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/members/action_items.php 
> #117 is closed.
> #105 is closed.
> #102 is closed.


Comments: (Track and close on replies)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/ 
> No new comments.


BUSINESS


ITEM: Check on schedule: 
* Note upcoming holiday weekend and plan for absences
> Don may be out on 13 July and Kristen will chair in Don's place.
> Meet as usual next week (7 July).


ITEM: Status of CD03 submission and follow up 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201006/msg00166.html (McRae) 
> ACTION: Kristen to update the schedule table on the Wiki page listing the 
> dates on which we submitted the various CDs to OASIS.

> Kris: Escalation to Scott McGrath appears to have done the trick and we are 
> getting better responses from Mary. Mary also agreed we can use our existing 
> namespace for 1.2 and just need to remove mention of the namespace from the 
> cover pages and also not have a namespace document at the namespace URL.

> Don: In terms of lessons learnt, we should keep Scott in mind when needing 
> to understand why OASIS works the way it does.

> The TC expressed concern over the visibility of the DTDs and XSDs in the 
> spec package now that we don't have an overview document.

> The TC discussed possible options for advising OASIS of raising issues in 
> the future as and when they occur. How to escalate if things don't happen 
> and if things do happen how to communicate what our experience with the 
> process has been like.


ITEM: Namespace document recap: 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201006/msg00221.html (Eberlein, McRae) 
> Rolled up into previous item.
> CLOSED


New ITEM: Lessons Learned 
* Start logging some of the procedural changes we've encountered this round
> Largely rolled up into CD03 status item above.
> Don asked Kris to log the issues ahead of our next discussion on this item.


Announcements/Opens 

> Kris: We need to put some automation into the build process. I manually need 
> to touch a number of files to tweak things and it would be nice to have a 
> fully automated build process.

> Don noted that we also need to clean up wiki pages, records, etc.

*** Meeting adjourned ***