Minutes from meeting on 13 April 2010

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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes
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The DITA Technical Committee met on 13 April 2010 at 08:00am PT for 60 
minutes.

Chaired by Don Day <xmlmeister@gmail.com>
Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <gerjosep@cisco.com>


Roll call

> Quorum was achieved.


Approve minutes from previous business meeting: 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201004/msg00015.html (6 April 2010 meeting, Joseph)
> Minutes accepted by acclamation (Don moved, Kristen seconded).


Action Item Review: (new standing item)

 * http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/members/action_items.php 
   * Gershon to give brief demo of the KAVI action item tracking tool. He'll 
     use WebEx for the demo.
> Gershon gave a demo of the action tracking tool.
> Don noted that we'll use this tool moving forward, allowing us to track
> actions via the system instead of keeping business items open to review its
> actions. We will review open (and closed) actions at the start of each 
> meeting, as a new standard agenda item.


BUSINESS

ITEM: Volunteers to review key sections of the architectural spec topics 
 * http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/TechReview4#Reviewstatus.3AReviewer.27sprogress 
 * Hot areas: Metadata, Processing, "Configuration, extension, and constraints," Appendices 
> Members volunteered to review sections. The review table in the above link 
> will be updated to reflect the assignments.


ITEM: PDF formatting: Changes needed before public review? 
 * Volunteer to coordinate this work effort? 
 * Work effort involves the following tasks: 
   * Scan PDF and identify problems (we can divide this into several chunks, 
     each for separate people) 
   * Triage problems into what must be addressed before public review and what 
     can be addressed during it 
   * Modify OASIS-styled XSL transformation 
   * Communicate with Suite Solutions about problems that concern their work 
   * http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/PDFFormattingIssues 
> Kris: Examples of issues are dead links, text overruns in table cells.
> JoAnn offered to scan the arch spec portion.
> Dick will scan the PDFs of the topics he's reviewing.
> Gershon offered to review the PDFs as well.
> All issues must be logged on the above Wiki page.
> Gershon to drive the PDF formatting activity, with Don helping with issue 
> resolution.


ITEM: Link text and key references 
 * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201004/msg00000.html (Nitchie) 
 * Review Chris Nitchie's suggested text for proposal and approval (see Review 
   #4 comments) 
> CLOSED (see Chris's AI in KAVI).


ITEM: Review meeting schedule for next week (DITA CIDM conference timing) 
> No meeting next week 20th April. Next meeting will be on 27th April at 
> regular time.


*** Meeting adjourned after 60 minutes ***