Meeting minutes 2015 10 08

Attendance: Robert, George, Simcha, Eliot, Guillaume, Shane, Jarno, Roger,

Item 1: Any updates about prior releases?

Any concerns about 1.x, 2.x?

Released 2.1.2 fixpack earlier this week.

Item 2: DITA-OT 2.2 status and updates

Goal: release in November; anybody working on new features should keep that in mind.

Seems a lot of pull requests coming in.

Robert busy with PDF - adding support for a lot of new languages. Some "supported" languages also had issues, trying to address those too.

Discussion of index sorting (based on updates Robert is adding).

Eero adding a lot of cleanup items.

Jarno split PDF plugin into 3 plus base (along with general cleanup) - one for each formatter, nicer organization from software development perspective.

Haven't touched 1.3 recently, but added support for prioritization of DTDs/Schemas so that it can be configured.

17 open issues right now for 2.2, not all will be completed, but marked as a goal for the moment. Considering removing obsolete plugins / not worth adding to default. In particular, eclipsecontent might be nice to remove (this is probably obsolete thanks to Jarno's dita->dita plugin, but Jarno prefers not to add many plugins to default distribution).

Item 3: Doc updates and plans

Want to focus on migration issues, and keeping up with issues that have been coming through.

Would be nice to use some of the new 1.3 markup in the docs (XML domain).

Robert has redone the "startcmd" article, needs review / may become more input to docs.

Item 4: DITA-OT Day 2015

Have 51 people registered to attend in person (14 of them indicated not attending DITA Europe). Some others may have registered thinking it is online event. Need to decide if going to broadcast again; worked fairly well last year except the one session that was given remotely. Sound issue is the most difficult, will look into it.

Antenna House also supporting OT day.

Overall, have several proposals for talks may still need more. Several items already in the agenda but need to fill it out.

Need to add some session about new work (invisible work, 1.3 work, sometimes that covers both). George hoping for a more technical session that we can get into agenda, some attendees will look for that.

Hoping to have complete agenda, even if draft, to help promote event.

Panel: Robert hoping we can also have a chance to ask audience questions. General: thinking of ways to get more participation during panel (avoid silence) - would like to pass cards out to write down questions and collect them, addresses a few common issues with Q&A sessions. Jarno suggests collecting questions on a wall that people can see, perhaps even vote on ("I'd like this question answered"). Both should be possible.

Item 5: Other topics

Speak to everybody in November...