On 06/28/2011 02:47 PM, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
Hey all;
It's been six months since our last release and the bugfixes have been
piling up, along with a few major enhancements. We'd like to ship
Publican 3.0 sometime soon.
However, we also face a major design decision. Publican was designed to
support DocBook 4; now that DocBook 5 is out, do we want to move
Publican to use that instead?
Since we'll need new, separate stylesheets for DocBook 5, supporting
both versions of the schema would require more maintenance than we're
able to provide. It really has to be one or the other.
The single biggest reason to move to DocBook 5 is that DocBook 4 is now
feature-frozen and in maintenance mode; the DocBook project's energies
are going into DocBook 5.[1]
Against that, the new style sheets will create the potential for
breakage. Documents will need careful checking to make sure that they
render properly. This will require effort from everyone in the community.
We need to know that Publican userbase is going to help find the
inevitable problems and file bugs when they do.
Opinions please, people?
Since moving from DB4->DB5 is a big effort it's unlikely we'd release P3
without DB5, and then begin working on it right away. This decision is
effectively deciding if we should move to DB5 in 2011.
A lot of the effort we currently exert is for the section 508 compliance
changes, if we move to DB5 I think we should drop this effort and refer
any accessibility issues raised, or patches we come up with, upstream.
Doing this reduces the effort to get DB5 ready by a significant degree.
Cheers, Jeff.
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