Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b

At 01:27 20/08/2000, André Langhorst wrote:

Which things?

well, I don´t think it´s a good way not to be informed on the actual state of "compiler-work" although it´s a commercial project (but it´ll affect us too), then I *thought* you´re (core-dev) not informing the rest of the world which way the development takes (but then we found out that it´s all kept in you brains), and I think there is some process which is hidden, the best example AndiGutmans: "here´s the long awaited patch...", well "long-awaited"? perhaps I did miss sth. but that message came such suddenly, I´ve subsribed to cvs-commit-daily then...

There are no conspiracies. However, if you convinced yourself there are, you'd find plenty of things to support and 'prove' that there are. It's your choice :) There are several levels of discussion. php-dev is where most of the development related discussions are made. Some things, such as release dates and major showstoppers, are discussed at the closed group@php.net forum. As a general rule, we decided to move almost all of the technical discussions out of the group@ and into php-dev@, but sometimes there are exceptions. Finally, there are other discussion levels, such as the internal discussions at Zend Technologies, about commercial products and other endeavors. Many of these are and will remain confidential, for obvious reasons. As for the manual, I generally think that it should stay a reference manual, with very basic descriptions and HOWTO's, much like Manuel and Stas suggested. If someone wants to learn PHP, he should use the various tutorials, and most probably, a good book. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/