Hi Carol,
John Hunt, Scott Hudson, and I
created a little tree of pages for the DITA Learning Content Subcommittee
(SC).
1. For now, these pages are on
the wiki. That will let the entire SC add info to them. (Oh, maybe a better
way is to make them Knowledge Base pages and temporarily open up the
permissions on those pages.) There's a big note under Editorial
Guidelines stating that the work of the SC would be done at the main OASIS
site, so I'd like to confirm that the following policy is ok. The SC pages
at dita.xml.org are for capturing and reporting publicly-visible
status. We've still got the SC wiki at the main OASIS site for working
information such as the agenda, and we would still use the e-mail list for
contributions.
(Thinking ahead ...) It's
possible that John Hunt and Scott H. would want to join the editorial
board. Scott H. has already written a message about that to the
communications e-mail address. I'd imagine that there will be at least
a technical requirement for people such as SC chairs and secretaries to
have editorial permissions to edit pages once they move to
the Knowledge Base. And it appears that an editor can put a wiki page into
"the book" using a drop-down menu. Does that simultaneously change the
permissions ... oh, probably not ... can the permissions change be done
separately and manually using the permissions settings on the page? I might
regret putting "wiki-" in the URLs ... I'm still looking for some way that a
user can know whether they're in the Knowledge Base, DITA Today, or DITA
wiki just by looking at the page.
2. While explaining how to add
new pages, I mentioned some rules that needed to be documented. To capture
that, I added some info under Editorial Guidelines. See About ->
Editorial Guidelines and its subordinate pages. Also the main pages for DITA
Today and the wiki (the only substantive change on those
two pages is to add a sentence referring to the Editorial
Guidelines and the Style Guide).
3. Also, as far as page navigation is concerned, the About
link in the top right corner goes to a different location from the About
section in the lower right. The upper right goes to a common set of policies
for the XML.org online communities. The lower right goes to the dita.xml.org
version. As far as I can tell, the dita.xml.org version is (now) more mature
and consistent than the common set. So some reconciliation is needed. The
common policy area takes the reader out of the DITA site, and I'd rather
stay within the DITA site, but perhaps as the number of sites grows, that
would be unmanageable.
Best wishes,
Bruce
