Re: [xmlroff] xmlroff status -- 2003-03-21

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Noah Levitt wrote at 21 Mar 2003 14:46:29 -0500:
 > Since you're doing me the honor of implementing my feature
 > request, I'll respond to your email. :-)

You've shown that you've used the software.  Right now that's a good
enough reason to consider your feature requests.

 > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 17:24:35 +0000, Tony Graham wrote:
 > >    I am currently the only contributor to the Wiki.  Does anybody read
 > >    the Wiki?
 > 
 > A couple thoughts. One barrier to posting on the wiki is
 > that you have to feel extra sure you're not saying something
 > dumb. :) This can be a barrier to sending email to a mailing
 > list too, but less so, I think.

I can see that.  I would welcome discussion on either the Wiki or the
mailing list or both.  Right now I'm just trying to work out what will
work best.

I'm happy to continue doing brain dumps to the Wiki, but I'd like to
know if people are reading them, hence the original question:  Does
anybody read the Wiki?

 > On the other hand, I think people might be more likely to
 > contribute if the wiki were _the_ xmlroff site, instead of
 > being something else that is linked to from the site. 

That is an interesting point.  I hadn't thought of that.

Some things like the conformance page would be had to represent in a
Wiki, but if the Wiki were the main site, it would be easy enough to
link to those pages from within the Wiki.  What do people think?

 > >    A by-product of xmlroff being open-source is that I am scheduled to
 > >    taper off my involvement with xmlroff over the six months following
 > >    its release: if xmlroff hasn't been picked up other developers
 > >    within six months, Sun isn't going to prop it up.
 > 
 > I think it's a pretty exciting and useful project, so I
 > don't expect it to die off. I'm not sure what you mean by
 > "release", though; could you clarify? Does that mean 1.0, or
 > is it something that has already happened? If it is in the
 > future, do you have an estimate of when it might mappen?

Released to public source.  The clock started ticking when the
availablility of the xmlroff code was announced in February.  Right
now I'm officially down to 80% working on xmlroff.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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