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Sure. I'll give it a go.
J.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 1:53 PM
To: Jerry Silver
Cc: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [dita-fa-edboard] Collaborating on DITA Spec Proposals
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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