<topic> is part of 5.1, which isn't released yet. 

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On 28/06/2011, at 5:05 PM, Darrin Mison <dmi...@redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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