Livedocs needs more testers, and more people willing to put time into it. I never found enough time to help out, but I try to direct everybody who is not satisfied with the lack of insite search, lack of timely manual updates, etc. to help in livedocs development as that is clearly the way to go.
We need docs.php.net online, and docweb on a reliable, working, and maintained server; and in PHP CVS. The current situation there looks a bit screwy but I've only been an observer there. I do like the idea of a core group starting it out, less noise, but is it ready for others now or is the server problem still holding things back?
Maybe we got a little too aggressive with idealistic ideas and should just focus on one thing at a time, like livedocs, I don't know.
Once ready for testing (now?), docs.php.net can simply be livedocs like it used to be (or a shell of docweb) and we won't "advertise" it. People
will slowly use it this way and the more people start using it the more
people will complain and more importantly the more people will fix
problems and add features. If a major problem exists there we can
redirect users to php.net/manual/ Also, it should add excitement to
the docweb project, a project few know even exists right now[1].
Well, I fully agree with you here. I have a copy (which I think is the latest possible) of the docweb efforts we started, and I definitely don't want to close it down. As far as I see, the server problems hold it down. If we don't have a server to run it on, there is no place to test the codes (I am not in the mood of setting up local servers for every test :).
BTW I have not committed the code to docweb because it is ugly at multiple places, and I hoped it will get polished before it gets published, but neither Mehdi nor Yannick had time to polish the code, so it might just be better to open it up finnaly regardless of how ugly it is and let people polish it :)
Goba
