Minutes from DITA TC meeting on 8 June 2010

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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes
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The DITA Technical Committee met on 8 June 2010 at 08:00am PT for 51 
minutes.

Chaired by Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>
Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <gerjosep@cisco.com>


Roll call
* Regrets: Paul Grosso, JoAnn Hackos, Dick Hamilton

> Quorum was achieved.


Approve minutes from previous business meeting: 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201006/msg00001.html (1 June Gershon) 

> Minutes accepted by acclamation. Moved by Don; Seconded by Kristen.


Subcommittee/liaison reports

* OASIS DITA Machine Industry Subcommittee (Chris K)

> Chris not on the call, so pick this up next week.


Review open Action Items: 
* http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/members/action_items.php 

> #90 - Don to check the validity of names in the list before sending the topic out for review. Also write up a rationale and put that to the TC list.

Comments: (Track and close on replies)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/ 

> No new comments.


BUSINESS

ITEM: Report on the editors' Friday meeting with Mary McRae 

> Kris: Don, Robert, Michael, and I met with Mary. We can leave in shortdescs 
> provided we provide some way of formatting it and include an explanation of 
> it in XHTML output. We agreed to work all of Mary's other concerns for PDF 
> and XHTML deliverables.

ITEM: Status of work on PDF 
* Specific stylistic issues that Mary raised 
* PDFs of the spec are in SVN in the releasesdita12-full subdirectory/ 
  * One generated with Antenna House, another generated with RenderX 
* Mary's comments can be seen and progress tracked at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/CD01#PDF 

> Seth: Cover page generated from DITA topic and formatting is there.
> Some minor issues still to resolve still around xrefs and numbering.
> Antenna House has some font issues I need to address.
> All TC and Mary requirements have now been met.
> The TC is requested to review and provide feedback on PDFs in SVN.
> All issues in the table linked above have been addressed.

> ACTION: Stan D to review the PDFs Seth uploaded against the issues list to 
> check for any outstanding items. Don also volunteered to perform this review.
> This action item is due in next 24 hours.

ITEM: Status of work on XHTML and CHM output 
* All work completed except for manually numbering appendices with letters 
* Progress tracked at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/CD01#XHTML 

> Kris: Robert delivered renumbering of appendices this morning. The new 
> plug-in has some CSS glitches I'll work out with Robert today. Other than 
> that, we've gotten everything!
> CLOSED.

ITEM: Discuss new topics and establish plan for reviewing/finalizing them 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201006/msg00016.html (origin of discussion) 
* Normative references (normative-references.dita) 
* Non-normative references (non-normative-references.dita) 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201006/msg00045.html ("New topics to review" chm upload) 

> Kris: I updated the topics to follow people's suggestions on the email list. 
> I now need TC members to review the topics this week so we can vote on the 
> updated content next meeting.

> ACTION: Bruce, Eliot to review the topics by Friday.

> Add the following non-normative references: Archetypal forms article on 
> DeveloperWorks and the original roadmap.
> ACTION: Don to dig up these links.

> ACTION: All TC members to review the topics in the CHM and send comments to 
> the list by Friday.

ITEM: Formatting conventions in the XHTML version of the spec (formatting-conventions-xhtml-output.dita) 
* All dita topics are in the root dita directory in SVN 

> ACTION: All TC members to review this new topic, which is included in the 
> CHM linked to in the previous business item. Combine this action with the 
> previous one.

ITEM: Namespace document: 
* Eliot's editing of my draft (in SVN, build/DITA1.2-namespace.html) 
* OASIS template for namespace documents: http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/namespace.html 
* http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/38161/DITA1.2-namespace.html

> Kris: My concern is Mary is insisting on a namespace document and what our TC 
> is doing does not strictly abide by the OASIS template. 

> ACTION: Don to send Mary a note with the URL to this document and see what 
> she needs and/or wants us to do to this doc to move forward.


ITEM: Schedule update -- when can we have all the work done? Help needed for the PDF? The namespace document? 

> The TC agreed to aim at voting on the updated CD 01 at next weeks' meeting 
> with all of the needed updates in place.

*** Meeting adjourned after 51 minutes ***