[publican-list] Publican 3.0 -- with DocBook 5 or without?

[Darrin Mison]

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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