I'm in favor of 5 purely for the "topic authoring" features.

On 28/06/2011, at 2:47 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?
> 
> Cheers
> Rudi
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/ch01.html#introduction-why-to-switch
> 
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