Building and Testing the Guidelines and Stylesheets

Dear TEI folk,

Inspired by Martin Holmes's work on getting the TEI Jenkins service running
in Docker <https://www.docker.com/>, I've been working on an easily usable
and replicable build and test environment for TEI. As those of you who
don't use Linux as your daily work environment probably know all too well,
setting up the Guidelines and Stylesheets build environment is painful. It
took me several weeks after joining Council to get it working, and to get
it working completely took even longer—and that was on OS X. I imagine it's
even worse on Windows.

Enter Docker. I've made an image with Ubuntu and all of the prerequisites
for building and testing on it, into which you can map your cloned TEI and
Stylesheets repos. This means you can work on them in your own environment,
but build and test them in the Docker container. Detailed instructions on
doing this are at http://teic.github.io/TCW/testing_and_building.html. I've
tested it on a clean Mac, and it works. I'd love to know if it works on
Windows. It should.

The goal here is to make it easy for TEI users to build and test the
Guidelines and Stylesheets, and therefore make it easier for you to
contribute to the development of the TEI, and also just easier for you to
play with and test things on your own. The Docker image is a bit huge, I
think mostly because of the TEX install. There may be things that can be
done to prune it a little. It might take a while to install at home if you
don't have a fast connection.

Please let me know if it works, or doesn't work for you.

Happy Holidays!

Hugh