Re: PHP DocFest (was: Re: [PHP-QA] Dutch PHP TestFest)

On 11.05.2008, at 17:01, Stefan Koopmanschap wrote:

Felix De Vliegher wrote:

I would also ask about something that was floating around today: looking at the current state of the php manual, there's (since php5) quite a lot of code that hasn't been documented in a standardized way yet. SPL is one of these (if you don't look at Marcus' SPL documentation), but there are definitely some other small areas that could benefit from a better documentation. Would there be interest in a TestFest-like PHP DocFest initiative, to improve the php manual? The entry barrier is quite low too with documentation writing, so a lot of people could help out with this. What's your ideas on this?

I personally think this is an excellent idea. From the success of the PHP TestFest I think we can come to the conclusion that there is a definite interest in improving PHP itself (as compared to open source projects within PHP). And similar to the TestFest, there aren't a lot of preparations needed for organizing such an event.

Actually this has been in the back of my head from day one. David and Raphael have been working on a submission interface, while its not quite ready for prime time just yet, I think their vision was also to make something for the future. Also given the fact that our doc tool chain has gotten easier, its even more feasible. Speaking of which, I am also hoping that we can further facilitate communications between all the different UGs so that we can do more joint events like this, share knowledge (slides or even speakers), as well as generally helping out with keeping the respective UGs running. I need to check back into how things are in regards to this. I remember there was a site for all german UGs and I guess Damien has quite a long list of Ugs as part of his elePHPant project. regards. Lukas