Meeting minutes 2023 11 09

Attendance: Radu Coravu, John Pashley, Josh Johnson, Roger Sheen, John Kirkilis, Chris Papademetrious, Frank Wegmann, Jarno Elovirta,

Item 1: Any updates about prior releases?

Request came in for patching Batik. Has already been patched in develop branch. If someone wants to build a patch, it would probably be very limited with security updates.

Item 2: DITA-OT 4.2 Development status and updates

Project board for next release: https://github.com/orgs/dita-ot/projects/42

Working on making preprocess2 (map first processing) the default for html5. Managed to fix known bugs that were hanging out causing trouble. Unit / integration tests pass. Planning to keep XHTML on the old one, just because if you're still on that, you probably are there because of old plugins that expect preprocess. For HTML5 - noting that custom plugins that just put in a lot of preprocess steps, while you still call "html5" transform type, could be more work to migrate or downgrade to preprocess, while any plugin with a custom transform type like my_html5 should be trivial to keep on the old one for a while.

Also doing work on LwDITA plugin. Some new table support in progress, but could also be something that lets you get into trouble, due to how different MD flavors work together (or don't). This update will be in next major toolkit; plugin itself will be released earlier on its own.

Update on DITA 2.0 - work continues, nearly done with tech-comm updates but still have the tricky bits of base to go.

Ops board: https://github.com/orgs/dita-ot/projects/39

Item 3: Doc updates and plans

Need to dig in a bit more on messages / message IDs. Some IDs are composed at runtime. https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/pull/4287

Code for XSLT messages is here: https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/blob/develop/src/main/plugins/org.dita.base/xsl/common/output-message.xsl#L22

Got issue from write the docs community, who was trying to build docs from OT repo. Think we've figured out the issue. If you're not using OT distribution, but using repo directly, have other instructions.

Item 4: DITA-OT Day 2024

https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2024/dita-ot_day.html

Still need submissions for some of the longer time slots. Could also welcome talks on some commercial plugins.

Item 5: Other discussion

Project boards: Project boards: https://github.com/orgs/dita-ot/projects/

Time to go through pull requests, issues tracker, determine how to handle open issues.