Uttered Karsten Wade kwade@redhat.com, spake thus:
Tommy is working on the build side of the module. It is handled differently than other documentation XML.
The press-release building process now works using the stock xmlto RPM from the distro.
Give it a try and let me know of problems. I haven't tested the I18N portions thoroughly, so stuff like the date formatting and character set may be off in places.
As a temporary measure, I've disabled the text-only formatting. Only PDF generation is supported. If it's important, I may be able to cobble up some sort of flat ASCII output until xmlto "does the right thing"(tm).