bookmaker

→ ‘rake book:publish’

Whatsit?

bookmaker will be an open source framework written in ruby to allow pain-free book-writing for technical authors. Not much else is quite fixed yet.

Some basic ideas behind bookmaker:

• use a coder like workflow, including SCM compatibility, rake based processes etc.
• get out of the way by minimizing overhead such as complicated markup, word processor stylesheets etc.
• integrate real source code, from real running (and tested) projects
• deliver basic, working functionality (no frills) but be easily extensible. (Hey, it’s ruby!)
• don’t try to reinvent the wheel, reuse existing tools wherever possible.

How to contribute

While bookmaker is, in every respectm, at a very early stage, I’d love to hear from you. Join the google-group at

http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-bookmaker

The code is hosted on gitorious and rubyforge (also via git), I’ll do a GitHub repo too, if someone requests it. Feel free to clone and sending me patches/pull requests.

Bugtracking/Featuretracking

Bugs and Features are tracked via ditz (for the time beeing). See current ditz web snapshot. To request features, please use the rubyforge tracker at http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=6111. (I’ll pull ditz tickets from contributers later on)

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. Send an email to Jan Krutisch, or use the forum.

Jan Krutisch, 22nd April 2008
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