Sean Wheller wrote: thanks for the explanation, sean!
One problem I must warn of. It's a religious question, of Java, that you will need to overcome with the ubuntu community, especially people at canonical. Seems that Java is a 4-letter word in the ubuntu community because it is not free. It's silly, I know, but that is the reality. I don't think the ubuntu-doc team cares what technology is used so long as the solution works, so there is your support base, but higher up you may have resistance. Sometime, the people up top, bless their cotton socks, tend to forget that this is a community project. Sorry I speak it how I see it these days.
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I think that with Lenya Dev and Forrest Dev we can get a working robust solution. Should you fail in your attempts with Ubuntu, I have another opportunity.
im not chasing, just offering ;) if ubuntu is not interested, then that's that.
Some friends in the CO.ZA community are setting a server to run gnome.org.za. This is new, but would be used to edit docbook xml documents from the GNOME Documentation project checked out from GNOME CVS. Let me know if you would like to do this or not. It is not Ubuntu related and we have total autonomy over what we will do, so politics aside I think we can move quickly and possible have it up and running in 7 -14 days. It could be a great live test case. I think we are happy to play crash test dummy.
i don't think we'll have time to set up another test system (we are busy enough with our own), but please join our discussion if you are interested.
best, -gregor
