14 Jul 08 Thank you and next step…

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