[xml/sgml-pkgs] Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Samstag, den 30.05.2015, 19:00 +0200 schrieb W. Martin Borgert:
> On 2015-05-28 23:24, Daniel Leidert wrote:

[not using DB toolchain]
> Just out of curiosity: What are you using now?

I haven't done much documentation lately. But I use GROFF for writing
manual pages for Debian packages. Even with basic *ROFF knowledge, this
is done easily - wrote a blog article about it once [1]. For larger
documents I'd use TeX.

[..]
> > I hope, fresh blood will revive the team and lead to fresh ideas for the
> > policy, the catalog system and the whole XML/SGML core of Debian.
> 
> Alternatively, stuff could me moved to collab-maint git or svn
> maybe?

That should be perfectly fine (also moving to GIT/$whateverVCS inside
debian-xml-sgml). JFTR: I also think, we might still have a chair in the
OASIS consortium(???).

[1] http://www.wgdd.de/2009/09/writing-manual-pages-in-groff-1.html

Regards, Daniel