Publican 3.1

[Paul Kennedy]

Thanks for the update, Rudi. With RHEL 6.4 GA on the near horizon, does that 
change the build process for the release those docs?

Paul

On 02/06/2013 11:43 PM, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> Just a quick heads-up on Publican status. As some of you know, 3.1 has just gone
> GA, and I hope to have it packaged shortly.
>
> We have a couple of problems with the 3.x series on Fedora, and a couple of
> implications for Fedora docs on top of that.
>
> 1. The big issue is still wkhtmltopdf. This is finally packaged well enough to
> get it reviewed, so I hope to start that process shortly. In the meantime,
> however, I plan to have the Fedora package depend on FOP. Publican will,
> however, default to wkhtmltopdf where it is available. We should make therefore
> make wkhtmltopdf packages available for Fedora docs folk to use in the meantime.
>
> 2. A bug has emerged on F18 in some of the XSL we use; this worked fine up to
> now, and so it looks like a change in a dependency. We haven't isolated the
> issue, but the workaround is simple and I'll include a patch in the version we
> ship.
>
> 3. A while back, we overhauled the text of the Fedora brand; I have only
> recently made this available for translation and will point translators to it.
>
> 4. When Publican 3 gets into the repos, we will either need to convert the
> existing docs site structure to the new Publican 3 structure, or force all
> writers and translators to stay on 2.8. Obviously, the former is preferable, but
> will require a freeze on publication while this happens (should hopefully be no
> more than a few hours)
>
> I think that's it! Stay tuned...
>
> Cheers
> Rudi
>