Re: Moving `php-src/docs` forward
| From: | Calvin Buckley | Date: | Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:45:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Moving `php-src/docs` forward | ||
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On Aug 21, 2026, at 4:29 PM, Weilin Du <weilin-du@qq.com> wrote:
>
> In other words, if you and reviewers put the same effort into the content itself,
> would it be more effective to the topic "Moving php‑src/docs forward" than
> rewriting it in different language?
>
> See?
>
> I say I don't object to the change because I don't think I have a say on internal
> doc, but I hope you can focus on the content itself instead of this if you want
> to make the internal doc better. That is, update missing APIs through
> UPGRAING.INTERNALS, building new chapters, writing articles for newcomers,
> etc, etc.
>
> That sounds way more better to me, and I am glad to see these contributions
> happening
>
> Cheers,
> Weilin D.
Very much this. We have a ton of stale docs on i.e. the wiki, internals
book, etc. There was the effort to write more in docs/ (plus archiving
the old stuff in docs-old/). Changing the format is minor, rST I don't
think will pose a difficulty to people writing it more than Markdown in
the same place.