[Typo3-doc] Start testing DocBook?

[Jean-Marie Schweizer]

> As you wrote, we have no hurry. And in the summer I have my two
> small gardens to take care of... But anyhow I would at least
> like to start this up! What do you say?

My efforts have been going into the marketing group for a while now and 
it looks like I'm going to be pretty busy for some time. I just picked 
it up the last few days to clear things up in the docTeam before it dies 
completely. That means I won't have much resources available for the 
docTeam.

My suggestion for approach would be to focus on Wiki, OOo and timtaw (as 
soon as it gets release) to provide first level tools for everybody to 
document. I have no idea where the project 'timtaw' stands and who is in 
charge and when it is released.

In the meantime before we start testing DocBook I'd look for anyone 
within or even outside the TYPO3 community that has experience with 
DocBook to get more information about its use and discuss pros and cons 
before spending more time with it.

Once we have a clearer picture we should prototype first where we take 
any possible action and style into account, test team work with CVS, 
learn about conditinals, references and language support.

After prototyping we should be able to present a solution for the 
devTeam including possible approach for future creation and maintenance 
of documentation to get some feedback.

During that process I'd like to see typographers look into the design 
aspect of the documentation to see if the XSL-FO can handle specific 
design needs or if an extra step through LaTeX will be necessary.

If by then we haven't given up on the DocBook idea I think we are ready 
to actually start testing with actual transfers.

I certainly will help any way I can but my focus is the marketing group 
which eventually will bring me back to the docTeam at some point just 
from a different perspective.

Jean-Marie