Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b
| From: | @work) | Date: | Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:59:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b | ||
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Zeev Suraski wrote:
>
> At 21:38 21-08-00, Zak Greant wrote:
> >One major advantage of keeping the tutorials and other supplementary
> >materials with the manual is that the PHP team will have control over the
> >quality, presentation and licensing of the resources.
>
> We'll have to live and see if that's true (IMHO it isn't). Uptil now, I
> don't think the material coming from the doc team was inherently better
> than the material from other sources; That's mostly because the actual
> developers of PHP rarely write documentation. The PHP documentation team
> is almost 100% PHP users, not developers.
If you prevent people from improving the documentation, then you are
probably on the right way.
The PHP documentation team is nearly around 100% PHP developers. Some
names: Rasmus, Andrei, Jouni, Jim, Torben, Uwe, ... and countless other
code contributers have contributed to the documentation.
And now lets stop this thread. I'm going home now and make something
different.
-Egon
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