The DITA Maturity Model Community (DITA MMC) is an extension of the original white paper developed by Michael Priestley, Lead IBM DITA Architect, and Amber Swope, Principal Consultant for JustSystems.

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Design template for DITA-OT features

Note: this design template is still under development, suggestions are appreciated...

Design for item What user need will be met by this feature?

Try to include information about what the user wants to accomplish, rather than technical details of how it will be accomplished.

What is the technical design for the change?

Describe enough that developers can understand what changes will be made. If the design is extensive, it may be best to store it in another wiki page.

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Plans for DITA Open Toolkit version 1.4.2

DITA-OT 1.4.2 was released April 30, 2008, so planning is closed. Version 1.4.2 is a maintenance release which includes primarily bug fixes, along with a few small patches and enhancements.

An earlier Milestone build of DITA-OT 1.4.2 was released on March 20, 2008.

A list of all updates in DITA-OT 1.4.2 is available on the DITA-OT 1.4.2 Release page.

Plans for future versions of the DITA Open Toolkit

The latest version of the DITA-OT 1.8, which was released June, 2013.

Development of new releases takes place using an Agile development process, with several iterations that will accumulate new items until we have enough for a release. Each iteration ends with a Milestone build that is available for testing.

The next version of the DITA-OT will be version 2.0.

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The DITA Open Toolkit The DITA Open Toolkit, or DITA-OT for short, is a set of Java-based, open source tools that provide processing for DITA maps and topic content. You can download the OT and install it for free on your computer to get started with topic-based writing and publishing. Note: while the DITA Standard itself is owned and developed by OASIS, the DITA Open Toolkit is an independent, open source implementation of the standard.

 

The normative information sources for DITA Open Toolkit are:

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