Re: Current state of my ideas on moving docs to GIT

On 16.06.2018 at 15:11, Andreas Heigl wrote: > Am 16.06.18 um 14:34 schrieb Nikita Popov: > >> Just want to check if there has been any recent movement here. > > Sadly there hasn't been much movenent here at all for several reasons. > > Sobak and myself had a very intense time around christmas where we > solved most of the issues we'd encountered. > > At that point in time the next step would have been to actually move the > docs over into git-repos to test the integration of the toolchain. > > For that the overall idea was to use git.php.net. We asked for someone > with karma to actually create those repos (at least the one for the > english docs and one translation) and Derick was so kind to try it, but > his karma seemed not to be sufficient. Requests on the internal > mailinglist on 18th of November 2017 as well as on 10th of April this > year on the systems list didn't see a response and to this day there are > no repos for the docs on git.php.net. > > So as long as the repos aren't available there's not really a reasonable > way to go any further. > > And to be honest: The lack of response especially from the systems > mailinglist is not very encouraging to change anything at all on the > currently established systems and workflows. Because especially during > the first few months after a possible move from SVN to GIT for the docs > there will be a huge demand of communication and change-requests that > need the help from those knowing and running the infrastructure. And > with the response-level I've seen so far on this and other topics that > will be a challenge that I'm not sure I'm willing to take on in my spare > time. Sorry to say so and I'm happy to be corrected! Bad news, since we really need a more communicative, more common and more robust alternative to PhDOE, in my opinion. CC'ing systems@ -- Christoph M. Becker