Reminder: Draft LwDITA spec needed for tomorrow TC call

Reminder -- The TC needs a copy of the current LwDITA spec draft
      for the meeting tomorrow. PDF is fine, and no need for OASIS
      styling.

    
I'll build from the GitHub repo tomorrow morning, if needed. 

    

    
Best,

      Kris

      

      Kristen James Eberlein

      Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee

      Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting

      www.eberleinconsulting.com

      +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)

      

    

    
On 2/3/2019 9:26 PM, Kristen James
      Eberlein wrote:

    

    
      
      
'm happy to discuss fast-tracking the LwDITA spec; I've been
        trying to do so since 2016 or earlier, beginning with insisting
        that the subcommittee issue the committee note. 

      
Two things:

      
        
It would be helpful for the TC to see the current state of
          the LwDITA spec. We understand that it is a draft document. I
          can create a PDF from the content in the LwDITA repo, if
          needed.

          

        

        
The LwDITA spec editors need to understand the reality of
          the spec approval timeline. The LwDITA spec needs to be
          approved by the TC and then sent through the OASIS
          process. After TC approval, there is a minimum of six
            months for the OASIS process, assuming NO need to
            modify the spec draft in any way. See https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/50807/Planning-DITA-1.3.pdf
          for more information.

      
      
 Please look at the PDF referenced above in order to understand
        the OASIS processes and the time frame that they impose.

      

      

      
Best,

        Kris

        

        Kristen James Eberlein

        Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee

        Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting

        www.eberleinconsulting.com

        +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)

        

      

      
On 2/3/2019 8:52 PM, Alan Houser
        wrote:

      

      Colleagues,
        

        

        I would like to tee up a discussion about Lightweight DITA spec
        development for Tuesday's DITA TC meeting. 

        

        Adobe gave a demo of their Lightweight DITA support to a small
        group last Tuesday. What they showed was very encouraging ...
        support for XDITA authoring in the current release of Adobe
        FrameMaker, HDITA (LwDITA expressed in HTML5) in RoboHelp, and
        Lightweight DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe's
        enterprise web CMS. Adobe is also deploying an internal workflow
        based on MDITA for customer-facing content. They used the
        Lightweight DITA Committee Note as the basis for their
        implementations. 

        

        Carlos and I have asked Kris to open a dialog about tactics for
        fast-tracking the Lightweight DITA specification. We have
        increasing vendor support and adopter momentum, and fear that
        publishing a Lightweight DITA spec in 2020 or 2021 would risk
        irrelevance. 

        

        Of course, Lightweight DITA must be compatible with DITA, and
        the DITA 2.0 specification is clearly on a different timetable.
        We trust this can be acknowledged and accommodated, without
        delaying the Lightweight DITA specification while DITA 2.0 spec
        development progresses. 

        

        Carlos, Michael, and I (LwDITA spec editors) look forward to
        this discussion. 

        

        -Alan 

        

      
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