Re: Re: PHP documentation authors / editors and license

On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 03:13 AM, Zak Greant wrote:

Heh. The content is already in docbook and the user notes are mostly useless already. ;)

*wakes from a long slumber* Depends on coding style (the notes), doesn't it? I used to bitch about PHP2->3 migrations, now I have 3->4, and 4->5(?). Revenue for me, but...

Seriously, of course it is better that we use what we have and just change to a better license. However, we do have options - this being one of them. :)

For the PHP ER, I spent a *little* bit of time revising old docs. It was a bit sad, seeing how many simple protos were... to put it gently, not currently accurate. It (the PHP ER work) knocked me out of docs for a while. Somewhere around here I have information to get paid for it... I never sent it in. Heh. For proper tribute, multiple CVS dumps should allow for *all* of the applicable authors to be listed. It sounds a bit like the BSD license, but what is the cost of 2 (or even 12) pages of 6 point text in a thousand page manual? About nothing. Web costs? Even less. Give the chapter-slaves their credit, the editor folks their credit, the one brilliant example their credit....etc. Or, switch from an old über-editor-batch to a "new" über-editor-batch... hmm. -Ronabop