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

[Ruediger Landmann]

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