Hi Sean and Russ, On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:39:33 -0700 Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you aware that the transition to docbook was only completed about > > one month ago? I am not sure there is the energy to attempt another > > complete transition of the manual, once again invalidating all submitted > > patches. > > > (Sorry to be only negative, but I wanted to make sure you were aware of > > the docbook timeline.) > > I believe the DocBook transition is what unlocked this work. From the > slides, the proof of concept was created using pandoc to translate from > DocBook to reStructured Text, and my guess is that pandoc wouldn't have > been able to handle DebianDoc-SGML.
Yes, exactly what Russ says, converting to DocBook could make it happen. So, it doesn't mean any waste of time and effort, DocBook format is **necessary** for next step. -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane
