<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi Daniel,</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> I used to be an active debian developer (<a href="mailto:mrj@debian.org">mrj@debian.org</a>) who mainly<br>
> packaged many docbook and xml-related resources and xslt processing<br>
> tools.<br>
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</div>Welcome back :) I adopted most of your packages.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks - and nice to meet you. Being the DocBook junkie that I am, I thought those packages added a lot of value to the Debian. But then I'm a bit biased. Perhaps we can eventually move to co-maintainership of some of those packages, to lighten the load. Or you can keep them all to yourself ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I pinged Mathieu about this, but you're probably a more appropriate person for this request: I need someone to "advocate and verify" my application. All that's required is for you to go to <a href="https://nm.debian.org/nmadvocate.php?email=mrj%40ibiblio.org">https://nm.debian.org/nmadvocate.php?email=mrj%40ibiblio.org</a>, enter your Debian username and submit. At least it'd get the ball rolling. Any help to expedite the NM process would be greatly appreciated. You'd be doing me a real solid here.</div>
<div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">I do and I remember several requests to package DITA.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><ramble> I'm working on a large documentation -> xml project for one of the big players in the hardware world, and they're quite big on optimizing their content for reuse. Although DITA was specfically designed with this goal in mind, we're largely using DocBook. At any rate, I'm highly motivated to get a plug-n-play DITA publishing system up and running on my machine, hence the motivation for packaging. My feeling is that as more large organizations migrate their user docs to XML, more and more will find that DITA is uniquely suited for many implementations. </ramble></div>
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> I wonder if I have to go through the entire re-application process??<br>
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</div>AFAIK you have to go through a shortened NM process and there are<br>
probably some tasks related to your GPG key. But there might be cases,<br>
where it is necessary to run the whole process again. You should better<br>
ask the NM board.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm sure we can relatively fast-track parts of the process as soon as I hear from the NM board. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again, and I look forward to working with you on the packaging, especially in making the processing toolchain more user-friendly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. Is anyone even aware of this document and do they use it? I'd really like to finish it, esp as regards the caching of network-retrieved xml resources, but that's a whole 'nother conversation.</div>
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Regards, Daniel<br>
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