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strict task vs. general task vs. the file naming and module rules

From: Bruce Nevin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:55:00 -0000







 



  
  
  From: Ogden, Jeff [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 4:27 PM
To: Eliot Kimber; 
  Joann Hackos; Michael Priestley
Cc: dita; Park 
  Seth-R01164
Subject: RE: [dita] strict task vs. general task vs. the 
  file naming and module rules


  
  
  
  I'm thinking of starting a 
  betting pool about if DITA 1.2 will be an officially approved OASIS standard 
  before the next major release of Arbortext Editor comes out. The TC and OASIS 
  have roughly 11 months to get this done to win that race. At this point it is 
  not clear which side of this bet I’ll take myself.
  
      
  -Jeff 
   
A 
lot of our time consuming work now is on the spec. Would it speed the process if 
we plan to make additional spec refinements during and after public review? I 
don't know the process, but don't we expect that we might have changes come out 
of public review?  Planning for that, couldn't we identify some of the 
known readability and presentation issues that we would like to make better, and 
plan to do them in that time frame so that we can concentrate on the accuracy 
and substance issues before release for public review?
 
    /Bruce