> i'd like to volunteer a sizeable chunk of my time to apache > > i've 3 years java, xml, etc most of which was spent benefitting from > apache code without the time to contribute (or was it willingness?) > > i'd like to improve my technical writing (partly as an employment move) > so I thought apache could do with my labour - which, what, when, where? > > I'm committed to DocBook and XSLT so how could this fit with Anakia? > > would an apache DocBook customisation (doctype or scripts) be of use? > has one been done?
http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/developing is in docbook format (see cvs module jakarta-avalon); it uses Cocoon and XSLT instead of Anakia. There's probably other places I'm not aware of. Atitudes toward DocBook vary wildly per project. As a whole, jakarta isn't committed to DocBook, or XSLT. XSLT doesn't fit within Anakia very well (the primary author, Jon, is not too fond of XSLT - search the archives for reasoning). I would suggest not investing a lot of time into Anakia though - we are seeing movement to newer tools to handle our documentation generation...try and search the archive of this list for information on maven, centipede, forrest, gump and the lot. starting points: maven: http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven centipede: http://www.krysalis.org/centipede As for documentation content, well, many subprojects could use help. Check with the ones you are interested in / have knowledge about, on their respective mailing lists. The content on the jakarta site itself is pretty good, imo. If you want to supply patches for that, check out http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jakarta-site2.html for information. cheers, - Leo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
