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 > > _______________________________________________ > publican-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list > Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican -- Darrin Mison "I'm not a JBoss Developer, I just play one on TV" Content Author - Engineering Content Services, Red Hat, Inc. RHCSA #111-092-417 _______________________________________________ publican-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican
