New Maintainer Needed

[Michael-F-Bryan]

I haven't needed to generate EPUBs for ages, so haven't had a real incentive to continue developing it or resolve open issues/PRs. If you use this tool or would like to see it improved, let me know and we can sort something out.

Some points for future work:

• Create a good default template which emits full HTML documents (will probably fix the myriad of "book is corrupted" issues - see ZipLibrary is causing "Protected by Adobe DRM" error on kobo #31, HTML files are not valid #29, Impossible to open on Kobo Glo e-reader #23, corrupt #20, Kobo eReader says "protected by Adobe DRM" #28, and the solution in Kobo eReader says "protected by Adobe DRM" #28 (comment))
• Create a good default stylesheet
• Allow people to link to the web (issue: Parsing external links as local #22, proposed solution: Support remote links #25)
• Make sure this tool can be used to consistently render The Rust Programming Language
• Publish pre-compiled binaries for Windows/Linux/Mac using GitHub Releases
• Make sure building with the --standalone flag will go through the normal mdbook rendering process (#rustdoc_include does not work #30)

[glottologist]

Hi Michael. I would be interested in taking over the maintenance

[blandger]

@Michael-F-Bryan Hi Michael. I also can be one of maintainers along with @glottologist and probably other people.
Let's move project further all together.

[Michael-F-Bryan]

@blandger and @glottologist sure thing that'd be awesome.

Do you have anything in mind for this project, or use cases you'd like to see implemented? I have a bit of free time coming up so could probably help mentor.

[blandger]

There are things goes into my mind first.

• review PRs for upgrading dependencies, check changes and see if they are feasible and suitable

• The main problem I can see is that project/code doesn't do it main functional ability to create epub from current rust-book MD sources. So it would be good to repair the main functionality first (Make sure this tool can be used to consistently render The Rust Programming Language). As I can see processing resources to be included doesn't work properly. Now the rust book has a different links like: {{#include ../listings/ch02-guessing-game-tutorial/no-listing-01-cargo-new/output.txt}}

Later we can start work on next bugs and later on features.

[glottologist]

The seems like a sound plan. I definitely think getting the core functionality working should be the main first focus.

[Michael-F-Bryan]

That sounds like a good plan. I've added the two of you as collaborators so you should be able to make changes as you see fit.

[hustcer]

Thank you for keeping the project move on.

[dluschan]

Do you still need a maintainer? I would like to offer my candidacy.