And re-reading the policies document made me aware that we've got
some steps to follow here. I was jumping the gun to suggest
closing the subcommittee so rapidly; it's my (and the TC's)
responsibility to try to help arrange new leadership, if
necessary.
Leadership: Do we have another person willing to serve
as co-chair or secretary of the subcommittee? If so, and that
person would be willing to be an active and voting member of the
TC, we'd meet the requirements. Frank Wegmann, might you be
willing to serve as secretary? I got the sense when Carlos first
brought up the fact that he would be leaving, that serving as
co-chair was not something that you thought you could manager.
Alan Houser? Would you be interested in stepping up?
Can the subcommittee commit to meeting at least once a
month?
What work item's will the subcommittee focus on? Based
on the report that Carlos gave to the TC on 26 October (see
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/202111/msg00000.html ),
we got the sense that pursuing a LwDITA spec was no longer
feasonable. The TC looked at whether updating the committee note
was possible, but thought that would be the right route/too much
work and a lack of volunteers. On the TC meeting on 02 November
(see
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/202111/msg00008.html ),
the TC floated the idea of getting a draft LwDITA spec into the
OASIS process as a committee specification draft (after DITA
2.0), but then not advancing the LwDITA spec any further.
Best,
Kris
On 11/20/2021 4:17 PM, Kristen James
Eberlein wrote:
Sorry, meant to send this to the LwDITA subcommittee and not
just Alan.
Kris
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Subject:
Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Is there any reason I
should not go ahead and close the subcommittee?
Date:
Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:09:28 -0500
From:
Kristen James Eberlein <>
To:
Alan Houser <>
I'm in no hurry to close the subcommittee. I will say that
this policy should not be news to the subcommittee; it's a
DITA TC policy that we created in conjunction with Michael P
and Carlos Evia, in order to ensure that we had good alignment
between the TC and the subcommittee.
It's certainly covered in the minutes, also in some of our
policy documents stored in SVN; I'll attach the PDF:
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
OASIS Distinguished Contributor
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting LLC
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
On 11/20/2021 3:41 PM, Alan Houser
wrote:
Kris/Colleagues - I request that the TC delay consideration of this issue, for the following reasons: - This is news to the Lightweight DITA subcommittee; and we have not had a chance to discuss it as a group. - Dr. Evia will remain a voting member of the DITA TC through at least the December 7 meeting (the third missed meeting; assuming that the TC meets on Nov 23). - The policy does not appear to be knowable in advance; I could not find reference to the policy in the DITA TC s charter or other documentation (I acknowledge that I did not search past meeting minutes or thoroughly check OASIS policy documentation). Respectfully, -Alan
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