> Finally, there's an example of an entire
> O'Reilly book that was produced with DocBook and for which the sources and
> build instructions are available as open source:
> 
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/>
> 
> My thought is that we could simply adopt this format and basically generate
> our own O'Reilly book for Hackystat. :-)

That's sounds like a cool idea.  The SVN book is based on DocBook Lite
template created by O'Reilly.  It's supposed to be much less verbose
and easier to learn than the entire DocBook set.

>From one of their readme files: "Originally, we used the full DocBook
application maintained by the OASIS SGML/XML standards group, but have
since refined it to a small subset with its own DTD. It has a few
additions for some types of books, but mostly the markup should be
compatible with the full DocBook."

See this URL for the full html introduction to DocBook Lite.
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/1.1.x/doc/book/tools/readme-dblite.html

The book it really professional, and I think that a Hackystat manual
like that would be great!

Hope that helps,

Tim

P.S.  Is there another way to download Hackystat besided the 116 MB
zip?  I'd really just like to get a (smaller) binary WAR and drop it
in Tomcat, or a standalone Tomcat bundle that just looks like its own
server that I can fire up without any setup.  That'd make it easier to
upgrade.  I'd just have to drop the WAR in, re-copy my configs, and
I'd be done.  I still haven't updated to 6.2 yet since I always have
to find the instructions on how to make the Ant calls.  I'm really
interested in getting the Review stuff and updated Telemetry going,
though, so it'll be soon.

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