Hello,

One topic we've been discussing on #gimp lately is a possibility to move away from DocBook/XML to a different markup language that would be easier for contributors, while retaining both the gettext workflow and existing translations.

Asciidoc is one possibility suggested by our Italian translator Marco Ciampa. We already use asciidoc in GEGL (in fact, gegl.org is built from asciidoc files), so one might say we have a bit of history with it :) Marco claims that gettext workflow is possible with asciidoc. Retaining existing PO files with translation si a subject for further investigation at this point.

We don't expect to make any bold infrastructure changes for v2.10, but v3.0 sounds like a good target for this milestone.

We appreciate your input on the subject. However we'd like to point that strong advocacy for any DocBook/XML replacement is best served with volunteering to maintain a new infrastructure :)

Alex