Re: Re: Final push towards PHP 4 release

On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Adam Trachtenberg wrote: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > We think the work you guys are doing on the documentation is really > > great. As you know, there are tons of Emails from users with very > > positive feedback about PHP's documentation. > > FWIW, I often see PHP's documentation highlighted as deserving of kudos in > the computer book community. The ability for users to add notations that > then get folded back into the official docs makes professionals view this > as almost an "open source book," which grabs a lot of attention for its > ability to get errors corrected and examples provided by all users, > instead of just the "official maintainers." Of course, they all realize > that without a strong team of editors, this would quickly degenerate into > a mess. :) I know it is now a mess. In my spare time I go over it and can only delete empty and nonsense contributions. There are now over 2000 annotations and I have seen also many cvsusers not makeing any documentation or make contributions to the annotated manual and not vice versa. -Egon