On 12/16/2009 08:28 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
I have been wondering whether there was any interest in the DocBook
community to apply to become a GSoC mentoring organization, too. I can
see many projects that are doable in such a context (I have a couple
of specific ideas that I would very much like to see realized, and I
think GSoC would be an ideal framework for this).
OK, let me add some ideas I have for such potential DocBook tasks that
are IMO suitable as GSoC projects:
The Boost project has been working on a DB extension to help document
C++ APIs. DB itself has some vocabulary to describe programming language
artifacts, but they are by far not sufficient to cover modern C++.
(More information about the existing "BoostBook" extension can be found
at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/doc/html/boostbook.html)
While some of the vocabulary is boost-specific, most is generic, and
would IMO be very useful to be maintained as an 'official' DB 5
extension, so any C++ author can use it. Thus, I propose that the
relevant bits be converted to DB 5, and integrated (as an extension)
into the docbook project itself.
Another project, somewhat similar in nature, is the addition of a
vocabulary specifically targetted at the software development process,
i.e. use-cases, requirements, specifications, and design documents. For
inspiration, see http://readyset.tigris.org/.
(Both of these projects include the definition of the vocabulary (Relax
NG ?), as well as some XSL stylesheets to process them into some media
(say, HTML and FO).
How does this sound ?
Stefan
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