"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:87d4zb7fm4.fsf@grogan.peloton...
on Mon Jun 25 2007, "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental-AT-thomson.com> wrote:
"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:87vedd16z5.fsf@grogan.peloton...
5. This is new *nonstandard* format any new developer will have to learn. I don't believe we can afford yet another barrier for new submitters.
Unless they already know DocBook, DocBook represents a much higher barrier for most people getting started.
I would guess that number of people familiar with DocBook would be much more in comparison with QuickBook
Granted. I would guess that the number of people familiar with neither is much much more. My point is that when you're starting from zero, QuickBook has a much shallower learning curve.
I don't believe boost should regulate what people use to develop docs. What it should regulate is: what people need to use the docs. IOW what we should require is the presence of BoostBook file
So you no longer object to BoostBook? Before, you seemed to insist on pure DocBook.
I never did (at least never intended, I midght've mistyped docbook instead of boostbook in some contexts) Gennadiy