Docbook Build Toolchain (was Re: Proposal: Create product for each derivative's documentation)

[Nandeep Mali]

Hello,

I just came upon this when Mario (who has pointed out about Beacon
previously) pointed me here. I am the main active developer of Beacon
and its great to see community interest generating.

The project was in hibernation for few months and, as mentioned
before, time is the only thing holding us back. I have currently
restarted working on the code base so it can be useable by month end.
There is a plugin framework in the works (the GIT repository is
somewhat outdated currently, will update it soon). This framework
allows one to write a plugin for any XML based doc type (like
GuideXML, DocBook, etc) so the editor can be made to work easily with
them.

There is an interest in Fedora community as well in making it work for
Docbook and am currently working with another developer (who is
working on a Docbook plugin for Beacon) on this.

If you are interested in Beacon then you are welcome to hang out at
#beacon on Freenode. The project is far from /dev/null. :)

Kind Regards
Nandeep (n9986 on IRC)