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

From: 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 -- SIX Offene Systeme GmbH · Stuttgart - Berlin - New York Sielminger Straße 63 · D-70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Fon +49 711 9909164 · Fax +49 711 9909199 http://www.six.de

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