Re: [docbook] DocBook web infrastructure needs work

Just a quick response to Dave (the first)'s comment -- I'm talking about the initial cost of entry into the DocBook club, you know, not the difficulty of staying abreast of the happenings, once you've already gotten in.

The current situation, with many sites duplicating information, seems to similar to the problem of URI aliases, described here: http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-aliases , where each alias divides the "web of related resources".

Also, just by the principle of DRY, having many sites with duplicate information creates a maintenance problem, which is apparent here, as there are so many bits of outdated information in so many places.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:09 AM, David Cramer <> wrote:

And to make things even more confusing, it appears that there are two David Cramers on the DocBook mailing lists :-) ...well, a Dave and a David anyway.

For a while there was a second David Cramer here at Motive. To disambiguate us in Exchange, they made me "David Cramer (Tech Pubs)" and him "David C. Cramer (Marketing)". I got a lot of his email.

But I guess I shouldn't complain. I can only imagine what it's like to be named "Mike Smith"!

David

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Dave Cramer [mailto:]

> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 9:49 PM

> To: 

> Subject: Re: [docbook] DocBook web infrastructure needs work

>

> I'll admit to having trouble finding the schemas sometimes (I

> should just bookmark them!). I think most of the confusion

> comes from Docbook itself vs. the Docbook stylesheets...

>

> Dave Cramer

>

>

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Chris Maloney

> <> wrote:

> > Hi, I'm new to DocBook.  I'm trying to jump into it, but am

> having a

> > really hard time.  I've spent an inordinate amount of time

> just trying

> > to figure out what the latest-and-greatest of everything

> is, where on

> > the web are the resources, etc., etc.

>

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