Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: PHP documentation authors / editors and license From: Ronald Chmara (ron <email protected>)
Date: 02/03/03

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 

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