It has been nearly one month since I released the first milestone of the DITA Open Platform. Since then I received a lot of positive feedback and encouragements either through the dita-users Yahoo! group, via direct e-mail and even on my personal blog.
I wanted to thank you all for your help and support and announce I already corrected some bugs and implemented some suggested features in the editor plugins that will come with the next milestone (you can see them all here).
For the second milestone, my plan is to release an easy-to-install packaging containing:
- The Trac project to ease information sharing and enable project management
- The Bitten plugin for Trac for continuous integration build
- The DITA Open Toolkit to be used by Bitten to build the documentation
- Subversion for content management, with the corresponding Trac integration.
- Various Trac plugins to ease integration (eg. the XML-RPC plugin which enables Mylyn integration) and management
I hope to get that milestone released by next October (no pledge). Have you any suggestion or comment feel free to leave me a note here or on the dita-users Yahoo! group.
Regards,
Claude
I am pleased to announce the first milestone of the DITA Open Platform version 1.0.0
This milestone is a test release in order to see if there is interest in the DITA community for what the DITA Open Platform project plans to offer. It is also a mean to collect suggestions and ideas from the community.
The goal of this project is to provide the DITA community with a free and easy-to-deploy DITA oriented production platform. It is targeted at small companies or teams that do not need a complete CMS solution.
The key deliverable of this milestone is the DITA-OP Editor, an Eclipse-based set of plugins featuring:
- The complete DITA architecture and language specification available through the Eclipse help system
- A DITA project nature which enables DITA files validation (pure XML validation and hyperlink references validation) and problem markers
- Wizards and templates to create new DITA files (topics, concepts, references, tasks, maps, bookmaps and processing profiles)
- A processing profile (ditaval) form editor
- A topic editor which leverages the power of the Eclipse XML editor (content assist, templates, as you type validation, formatting) with a dedicated preview page
- A launch configuration dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit which enables setting up the toolkit scripts, saving your configuration for later reuse or sharing and even adding automatic build to your DITA project.
Next step will be to provide a server packaging enabling:
- Configuration management of the DITA files
- Management of the authoring process
- Management of the publication process
For downloading please refer to the download page on this site.
Complete documentation has yet to come but the documentation page should give you an overview of what is already possible.
I will answer questions and support requests on the Yahoo! dita-users group.
Claude
Welcome to the DITA Open Platform project.
The DITA Open Platform is a free, open-source project which goal is to provide an enterprise platform for the edition, management and processing of DITA documents.
More to come…