Meeting minutes 2017 07 06

DITA-OT Docs Call — July 6, 2017

Contents

• Attendance
• OT project status updates
• New issues since last call
• Fixed issues since last call
• Project planning board review
• Discussion

Attendance

• Kris
• Peter
• Roger
• Shane

OT project status updates

The DITA-OT contributor call was held immediately prior to the docs call. Meeting minutes are available at https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/wiki/Meeting-minutes-2017-07-06.

• New OT releases, upcoming release plans

New issues since last call

The June call (originally scheduled for June 1) was postponed to June 8 to coincide with the DITA-OT Contributors call, which was shifted to account for the Romanian holiday.

The June 8 call was later canceled due to low attendance and technical difficulties, so the lists below cover changes since May.

4 new issues were created since the last call.

• #143 – Document new org.dita.pdf2.legacy plugin for 2.5
• #144 – Remove JavaHelp references
• #145 – Missing description of property cli.color
• #146 – Where is the DITA OT Slack channel?

Fixed issues since last call

A total of 7 issues & pull requests were closed.

• #128 – Is the --filter command path absolute or relative ?
• #131 – Document new Java API for 2.5
• #132 – Description of HTML5 parameters is not equal to the HTML-based output parameter description
• #136 – Document map-first preprocess
• #143 – Document new org.dita.pdf2.legacy plugin for 2.5
• #145 – Missing description of property cli.color

Of those, 1 was a pull request, by Robert.

• #142 – Describe internal property temp.output.dir.name

Project planning board review

The docs issue tracker at https://github.com/dita-ot/docs/issues currently lists 17 open issues, 129 closed.

Our GitHub Projects boards show the status of issues currently associated with each release milestone and serve as the primary planning overview for upcoming releases:

• 3.0 Release

Discussion

Continued discussion from the May call regarding the idea of a pre-OT-Day docs sprint, meetup or hackathon-type event on October 28 in Berlin.

Kris is still enthusiastic about a docs sprint in the form of an indexing workshop, sees potential to get more people involved and encourages us to pursue the idea. Roger has tentative approval from a client for the use of their space, but needs to confirm before publicizing the event.

An indexing workshop would require our indexing guidelines to be in place, which will require further preparation by the docs team. Kris asks whether Peter & Shane might be able to attend, both hope to.

Next steps:

• Roger to reach out to local DITA Users meetup groups to gauge support
• Kris offers to work with Peter & Shane to develop an indexing framework
• Shane suggests a 30-minute weekly call for making progress:
  • Peter: this time is good, for Shane too, Kris could start earlier
  • Consensus: Fridays, 9 AM Eastern, 3 PM CET
  • Start next week (July 14)
  • Each think about what would be good start of master index
  • Kris can offer insight into how she went about indexing the DITA spec
  • Peter to provide an overview of indexing resources & guidelines

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Created 2017-07-06 15:23