Re: Current version of DocBook and relationship between OASIS / Doc

Well explained Jirka...
   But I have to agree, it is all rather confusing when set out like that :-)

One small (0bvious?) addition:
   5.1 is being developed outside of Oasis, prior to submission to Oasis
as a candidate standard.

HTH

On 6 November 2017 at 14:32, Jirka Kosek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5.11.2017 20:48, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> What is the relationship between OASIS and DocBook? Both from an
>> organizational and specification perspective.
>
> Hi,
>
> I will try to explain, but others feel free to add more information.
>
> OASIS (https://www.oasis-open.org/) is organization that develops
> standards. DocBook schema is developed by DocBook Technical Committee
> (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook)
> following OASIS process
> (https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2017-05-26).
>
> DocBook TC develops only schema for DocBook. There are other important
> assets like stylesheets or documentation -- these are developed
> independently from OASIS, usually by few volunteers on open-source basis.
>
>> What is prompting this question:
>> - http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/os/docbook-v5.1-os.html
>> claims that 5.1 is a OASIS Standard
>
> That's true
>
>> - http://docbook.org/xml/5.1/ appears to be exist, but lacks
>> docbook-5.1.zip and does not say "There is a specification for this
>> release."
>> - http://docbook.org/xml/5.0/ has the zip file and specification sentence
>
> I agree that difference might be confusing but it's not intentional.
> Most likely change is caused by change in build system used and people
> involved in the process.
>
> If you miss ZIP distribution and link to specification please fill issue
> for this at: https://github.com/docbook/docbook.org/issues
>
>> - http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/ shows 5.0 but not 5.1
>> - http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/index.xml says "<para>This
>> version has not been released yet.</para>"
>> - http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/index.xml says has an
>> ancient rcsdate and references alpha1 even though
>> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/ lists newer versions (betas and
>> releases)
>
> Umm, well. Outdated info on oasis-open.org is hard to explain to
> outsider. The short story is that process for updating these pages is
> not very convenient and thus these pages are outdated. I suggest using
>
> http://docbook.org/xml/
>
> instead. docbook.org domain is under control of DocBook community.
> Folders at http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/ should be mirror of
> http://docbook.org/xml/ -- but this setup never worked for reasons
> explained above.
>
> Hope this helps little bit,
>
>                                 Jirka
>
>
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