Fwd: Fw: [dita] Charter for the proposed DITA for programmers subcommittee

Another try to get this charter revision into the TC's mailing list
    archives.

    

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          Fw: [dita] Charter for the proposed DITA for programmers
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          Date: 
          Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:07:40 -0500
        

        

          From: 
          Lisa Dyer <>
        

        

          To: 
          , Don Day (LbW)
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Lisa J Dyer

      Community manager

      Samples development

      IBM BPM and WebSphere Lombardi Edition

      IBM Software Group, AIM

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              From:
            

              Aaron LaBella/Burlington/IBM
          

          

            

              To:
            

              Lisa Dyer/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
          

          

            

              Cc:
            

              Eric Sirois/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
          

          

            

              Date:
            

              09/20/2011 05:48 AM
          

          

            

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              Re: Fw: [dita] Charter for the proposed
                DITA for programmers subcommittee
          

        
      
    

    

    

    Lisa,

    

    Additions below -- sorry I couldn't
    get this to you yesterday by EOD.

    Thanks.

    

    

    Aaron W. LaBella

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    Lisa
      Dyer---09/19/2011 10:35:13 AM---Aaron, here is the draft charter
      for the DITA for Programmer Content to which we want to
      incorporate

    

    From: Lisa
      Dyer/Austin/IBM

    To: Aaron
      LaBella/Burlington/IBM@IBMUS

    Cc: Eric
      Sirois/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA

    Date: 09/19/2011
      10:35 AM

    Subject: Fw:
      [dita] Charter for the proposed DITA for programmers subcommittee

    

    

    Aaron, here is the draft charter for the DITA for Programmer
    Content to which we want to incorporate the work you and Eric have
    done.

    

    - EOD today - Would you please add a bullet each under Goals
    and Deliverables to summarize? I will take the revised
    charter to the DITA TC tomorrow (9/20) for a vote. And then, the fun
    can begin in earnest :-)

    

    Eric, in case you missed last week's DITA TC call:

    

    - Michael Priestley made me aware of this work and requested that
    the DITA for Programmer Content sub-committee would include in its
    charter--which I think is a fantastic idea. So I briefly chatted
    with Aaron this morning to understand the scope, SME
    commitments/bandwidth, and general timeline. (I think it's safe to
    assume we have all of 2012 if needed to deliver this work, given
    expected DITA 1.3 timeline.)

    

    Cheers,

    

    - lisa

    

    Lisa J Dyer

    Community manager

    Samples development

    IBM BPM and WebSphere Lombardi Edition

    IBM Software Group, AIM

    512..970.4147

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      Dyer/Austin/IBM on 09/19/2011 08:58 AM -----

    

    
      
        

          

            From:
          

            "Kristen Eberlein" <>
        

        

          

            To:
          

            <>
        

        

          

            Date:
          

            08/23/2011 12:04 PM
        

        

          

            Subject:
          

            [dita] Charter for the proposed DITA for
              programmers subcommittee
        

      
    
    

    

    

    Below is a charter for the new DITA for
      Programmers Subcommittee. Lisa Dyer (IBM) will be the subcommittee
      chair. Voting on this SC charter will be the first item on our
      agenda for next week.

     

    Charter for DITA for Programmer
        Content Subcommittee

     

    Goals

     
    
      
        1. Provide an open forum for discussion
          about the use of DITA content to create programming reference
          information in outputs including HTML, PDF, and embedded
          assistance.

        2. Provide standard DITA XML
          specializations for delivering programming reference
          information, with special consideration given to:
        
          
            · requirements
              for embedded assistance and progressive disclosure (for
              example, when a product provides a programming or script
              editor) 

            · the use
              of commonly adopted information designs for programming
              reference information

            · coalescing
              any existing standardization work across the industry

            · project requirements, design, and test case
              items, with the ability to provide linkage and automatic
              traceability verification
          
        
      
    
     

    Deliverables

     
    
      
        1. Specifications for producing reference
          information in DITA XML for the commonly used programming
          languages:
        
          1. Java

          2. _javascript_

          3. C++
        
        2. Specifications for
          authoring project documentation in DITA XML which can produce
          software project artifacts, such as:
        
          1. Project Information

          2. Requirements

          3. Design

          4. Test Plan

          with an automatically
            generated Requirements Traceability Verfication Matrix
        
        3. Detailed documentation about how to make
          use of the specializations. 

        4. A sample implementation of each
          specialization.
      
    
     

    The subcommittee will consider additional
      deliverables as stretch goals depending on participation.

    Best regards,

    Kris

    Kristen James Eberlein l DITA
      Architect and Technical Specialist l SDL Structured Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1 (919) 682-2290 l 

    

     

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