Proposal: Create product for each derivative's documentation

[Philip Olson]

> If you do know of solid tools that the team could use to improve its
> toolchain, and have some concrete proposals to put forward that could
> be evaluated, please put them forward.

Greetings,

We suffered from this problem for awhile and ended up creating a new  
project out of it that only requires a recent version of PHP. Granted  
it only deals with the building aspect but it's great to say only PHP  
is needed instead of various boring tools like automake, openjade,  
xsltproc, etc. This tool also builds CHM and PDF.

One goal is to make it generic enough to work on any DocBook project  
(and it sorta is) but currently it contains PHP.net specific elements.  
If you're interested in such a tool let me know and we'll use Ubuntu  
as a testbed for when we continue work on expanding its use for  
others, or simply try it out. Granted we designed it for DocBook 5 but  
DocBook 4 should work without too much trouble.

The tool in question is called PhD: http://wiki.php.net/doc/phd

Regards,
Philip