Re: Moving PHP documentation to Git repository

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Christoph Rosse <crosse@2bepublished.at> wrote: > On 25.06.2013 08:46, Christian Stoller wrote: >> >> Hi internals. >> >> What do you think about moving the PHP documentation to a Git repository, >> mirrored on Github? Doing this would make it possible for everybody to >> extend the documentation easily by creating pull requests. >> >> Today one has to get an SVN account to edit the docu or you have to use >> https://edit.php.net/ which does not work as expected (at >> least for me when >> I tried to update some German documentation). My changes have not been >> integrated for some months (I had to write an email to somebody of the doc >> team to apply the changes). >> >> Symfony does it this way (see >> https://github.com/symfony/symfony-docs/) >> and I like it very much. It is really easy to extend/update parts of the >> docu which are not complete or outdated and I am sure that it is comfortable >> and timesaving for the doc team, too. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Best regards >> Christian >> > > As one who's had very similar experiences when trying to update some > documentation via. edit.php.net (no feedback, no integration etc.) I would > really love to see this feature. Really? That's not too good as we have been promoted this tool for some time already. However adding the php-doc list to CC so they can answer and give us some feedback/info. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org