RE: [dita] DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 July 2010

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Bruce Nevin (bnevin) <>
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RE: [dita] DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 July 2010
I thought I was quoting what Don 
said about it. My mistake, surely.

 

Kris, Seth, do you accept the 
following as the amended item 4?

 

4.  ITEM: PDF broken 
links
  o reported by Su-Laine Yeo.
ACTION: Kris: fix links that are 
broken in source.

ACTION: Seth: fix links that are 
improperly rendered in PDF.

 

If not, how should the amendment 
read?

  
/B

  

  
  From: Su-Laine Yeo 
  [mailto:] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 
  3:11 PM
To: Bruce Nevin (bnevin); 
  
Subject: RE: [dita] DITA Technical 
  Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 July 2010

  

  

  
Hi 
  Bruce,

  
 

  
Thanks for taking 
  minutes. Regarding item #4, on the broken links in the PDF file, this issue 
  was not resolved before the meeting. IIRC, there was an action item for Seth 
  to address the links that were broken as a result of the production process, 
  and another action item for Kris to fix the links to an obsolete topic. I 
  think Kris might have volunteered to fix the other broken links that are in 
  the source topics as well.

  
 

  
Su-Laine

  
 

  
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  Yeo
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From: Bruce Nevin 
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Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 
  9:11 AM
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Subject: [dita] DITA 
  Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 July 
  2010

  
 

  

  
DITA 
  Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 July 2010

  

  
 

  

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

  

  
 

  

  
The 
  DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 08:00am PT for 55 
  minutes.

  

  
 

  

  
Minutes 
  for
DITA TC Wiki: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/FrontPage
8:00-8:05 
  Roll call

  

  
 

  

  
STANDING 
  BUSINESS:
Approve minutes from previous business meeting:
- Moved by 
  Don, seconded by Bruce, passed by acclamation.

  

  
 

  

  
Subcommittee/liaison 
  reports:
- None today.

  

  
 

  

  
Action 
  Items:
- Few and not urgent.
- Su-Laine: AntennaHouse willing to give us 
  a license if we give credit in the spec. We agree. They need info about 
  platforms to support.

  

  
 

  

  
BUSINESS:

  

  
 

  

  
1. 
  Public Review Comments:
Decision last week was to track comments in a wiki 
  page; Don has set this up. 

  

  
 

  

  
ACTION: 
  Don: contact those assigned to begin work on comments.
ACTION: Don: 
  Determine whether or not the Chair can by proxy subscribe TC members to the 
  comment email feed.

  

  
 

  

  
2.  
  DITA 1.1 errata:
  o http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/201007/msg00012.html 
  (Sirois, 13 July 2010)
(Not XSD errata.) Eric Sirois will create a new 
  package. Moving link to public location requires TC vote. On next week's 
  agenda.

  

  
 

  

  
3.  
  ITEM: Kris's list of "items we failed to capture on a wiki page"
  o 
  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201007/msg00054.html 
  (Eberlein)
    - Add consistent metadata to DITA files, 
  especially copyright
    - Clean up inconsistent tagging, 
  especially vis-a-vis normative terms
    - Improve 
  linking
    - Correct any build errors
    
  - Remove old revision tracking information
    - Clean up 
  SVN, remove any duplicate files

  

  
 

  

  
Agenda 
  items 3 and 5 remain open for input, particularly from Robert.
ACTION: 
  Kris: combine items 3 and 5 on the agenda.

  

  
 

  

  
4.  
  ITEM: PDF broken links
  o reported by Su-Laine Yeo.
Resolved 
  before start of meeting.
CLOSED

  

  
 

  

  
5.  
  ITEM: DITA source file provenance (per Eberlein)
  o "One item for 
  today's meeting would be to better aggregate the various items concerning the 
  DITA source files that have been proposed for activity during the public 
  review. I've gone searching and located the following 
  lists:"
    - Work plan: Items that can be completed during 
  the public review:
    - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/workPlan2
    
  - DITA 1.2 specification: Authoring and editorial 
  issues:
    - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_1.2_specifications%3A_Authoring_and_editorial_guidelines
Combine 
  with item 3, see action there.

  

  
 

  

  
6.  
  ITEM: Testimonials from organizations using DITA 1.2
  o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201007/msg00048.html
Seth 
  listed a page for this. Needs a more prominent location. This location needs 
  to be publicly accessible, and the public needs to be able to edit so as to 
  provide their testimonials, but not able to modify others' submissions. Don: 
  they could use the comment mechanism, and someone on the TC could transcribe 
  into the internal location. Link to comments is on the TC's public frontpage. 
  

  

  
 

  

  
ACTION: 
  Don: add to agenda for next week item to step through this process. 
  
ACTION: JoAnn: update the Adoption TC paper on 
  this.

  

  
 

  

  
7.  
  ITEM: Conditional processing of rev attribute
  o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201007/msg00035.html 
  (Yeo)

  

  
 

  

  
ACTION: 
  Don: track this comment and its resolution on the TC's wiki.
ACTION: Kris: 
  clear up ambiguities on this in the 
spec.
CLOSED

  

  
 

  

  
8.  
  ITEM: Use of Syntax elements
  o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201007/msg00044.html
  
  o Other inputs to gather? (Pickett, Vasquez, others?)
Tony will register 
  this item on the Adoption TC's feature article list. Need to advise him of 
  relevant resources, such as Deborah Pickett's SVG handler.
Eric will look 
  into IBM materials that can be released. The algorithm has been documented for 
  an inline WYSIWYG syntax editor developed at Cisco, and that spec may be 
  available.
CLOSED

  

  
 

  

  
9.  
  Announcement: New white papers from DITA Adoption TC
  o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201007/msg00043.html 
  (Eberlein)
Noted with congratulations. 

  

  
 

  

  
9:00 
  Adjourn