Vex/DitaWishlist

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Project Collaboration/Marketing

List of projects where collaboration may eventually be possible:

• http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/
• http://mojo.codehaus.org/dita-maven-plugin/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita2wiki/
• http://bitbucket.org/qwcode/dita.ot.plugins.highlight/wiki/Home
• http://dita4publishers.sourceforge.net/
• DITA committe itself: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/FrontPage

List of projects where we could be promoted (marketing)

• <previous projects for collaboration>
• news at yahoo DITA user group mailing list

http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=132728

• news at DITA OT user/developer mailing list

http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=132728

List of conferences to get attention

• EclipseCon
• Eclipse Europa Submit
• DITA Europe 2010 Conference - Viena, Austria 15-16 November 2010

http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/DITAeurope/2010/index.htm

Other:

• Screencasts
• Trainning sessions
  • DITA made easier
• Demo camps
• Vex Book for Vex 1.0 ??

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Authoring

Core WYSIWYG Editor [User/Developer]

• core widget
• Schema extension [Developer]
• Skin extension [Developer]
• Multi-language spell checker extension [Developer]

Schema Plug-in Creator Wizard [Developer]

• schema extensions [developer]
• wizard [developer]
• enhanced validation extensions [developer]
• target examples:
  • DITA 1.1
  • DITA 1.2
  • Docbook 4.5
  • Docbook 5

Skin Creator Module Wizard/Editor [Developer]

• wizard [developer]
• target examples:
  • DITA 1.1
  • DITA 1.2
  • Docbook 4.5
  • Docbook 5

UI Editors [User/Developers]

• editor extensions????
• RCP Editor [User]
• RCP/RAP Editor [User]
• JavaServerFaces(JSF) server-side editor component [User]

Snippets [User/DEveloper]

• snippets extensions [Developer]
• target examples: tables, sample topic, sample element [User]

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Reference Documentation

• plugin extensions for reference materials of specifications like DocBook, DITA, etc.

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Document Store

Document templates [Developer/User]

• document template extensions (skeleton, previews, documentation) [Developer]
• integration to other wizards [User]
• target examples: company template documents, basic letters, books , system component technical descriptions, user guide, developer guide, etc

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Publishing

Publisher Actions [User/Developer]

• action extensions [developer]
• actions [User]
• target examples: publish, transform, validate

Publisher Wizard [User/Developer]

• Core pages [User]
• Facet extensions [Developer]

Publishing Modules [Developer]

• publishing module extensions [Developer]
• UI dialog with list of 3rd party modules (similar how server adaptors dialog appear) where a module can be downloaded and installed [user]
• target examples:
  • DITA OT
  • DocBook Tools
  • XSL Tools

Module Adaptors [Developer]

• core adaptor extension plugins [Developer]
• UI dialog with list of 3rd party adaptors (similar how server adaptors dialog appear) where an adaptor can be downloaded and installed [user]
• target examples:
  • PDF Hightlight -postprocessing
  • XHTML Hightlight -postprocessing
  • HTML->DITA -transformation
  • DocBook ->Dita -transformation
  • DITA2Confluence -publishing
  • DITA4Publishers -specializations (http://dita4publishers.sourceforge.net/)

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DITA

DITA Maps/Bookmap Editor [User]

• UI Forms for dita maps [User]

DITA Specialization Editor [Developer]

• core GMF editor [Developer]
• specialization extensions [Developer] (like including specialiaztion in a plugin, i.e. DITA4Publishers)

DITA Specialization Project Wizard [Developer]

• wizard that generates dummy skin, project structure, launches specialization editor [Developer]

(see http://www.elovirta.com/2007/12/09/dita-specialization-generator/)

DITA PDF/XSL Engine configurator [Developer/User]

• Engine extension plugin [Developer]
• target engines: Apache FOP, Athena, etc. [User]

DITA Engine Override Manager [Developer/User]

• overrides template extension plugin [Developer]
• Override Manager UI [Developer]
• target corporate examples: branding [Developer]
• target DITA examples (Basic overrides): frontmatter, TOC numbering, Logo [User]

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Continuous Integration

Maven support [Users]

• Automated publishing
• Automated validation
• Automated code testing
• Automated resource fetching