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Jerry,
I think I understand now. Could you edit http://dita.xml.org/enhancements in a way that would appropriately describe and kick off
this kind of collaboration?
Carol
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Silver [mailto:jerry.silver@blastradius.com]
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 3:48 PM
To: Carol Geyer; dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [dita-fa-edboard] Collaborating on DITA Spec Proposals
The forum is a good place to discuss ideas, but not a good place to collaboratively develop ideas over a long period of time.
Here is a very common scenario: an issue is raised. A bunch of discussion ensues. It dies down after a while without a conclusion.
This commonly happens because other priorities intervene. Six months later someone has the same idea. They post to the list.
Everyone wastes time searching the archives to try to point them at the last discussion. The discussion evolves a bit more. It dies
down again. Every time this happens, there is a huge amount of wasted time going back to the old discussions, trying to pull the
threads together. The wiki should be a place to summarize the evolving discussion instead of going back and forth to older,
unresolved discussions. Instead: at the end of each discussion, the wiki should be updated with the group's best understanding of
the issue at that time. At some point the idea becomes a formal proposal and the discussion moves to the TC.
So, turning the collected ideas into a formal proposal would happen within the TC. Voting it in or out of DITA would happen in the
TC. But the Focus Area allows the wider community to be content contributors to the decision making process, which happens within
the TC.
Regards,
Jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:55 AM
To: Jerry Silver; dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [dita-fa-edboard] Collaborating on DITA Spec Proposals
I thought we decided that a Forum would be the most appropriate way to handle this type of discussion. Forum functionality is not on
our primary Drupal task list, so we can explore it further when we get a better idea of how the Drupal forums work.
I posted draft text at http://dita.xml.org/enhancements -- but this obviously needs to be fleshed out to provide more direction on
what kinds of enhancements and discussion we'd like to see in the Forum. Feel free to edit.
--c
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From: Jerry Silver [mailto:jerry.silver@blastradius.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 7:40 PM
To: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] Collaborating on DITA Spec Proposals
I remember discussing the issue of how we will encourage people to collaborate on ideas and proposals for enhancing the DITA spec,
but I don't remember how we resolved it. There's nothing obvious in the current navigation.
Can someone refresh my memory? Is there any reason why "DITA Enhancements" should not be a heading under DITA Community?
Thanks,
Jerry
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