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From: Hannes Magnusson [mailto:hannes.magnus...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 6:01 AM
To: Bill Salak
Cc: Rasmus Lerdorf; PHP Documentation List
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] User commentary in docs
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 06:41, Bill Salak wrote:
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On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 06:41, Bill Salak wrote:
>>Yes, documentation is tricky. People, especially PHP users, come from so
> many different experience backgrounds that it is almost impossible to write
> one set of docs that speaks to everyone. There are things in the user
> comments that I have
>Yes, documentation is tricky. People, especially PHP users, come from so
many different experience backgrounds that it is almost impossible to write
one set of docs that speaks to everyone. There are things in the user
comments that I have seen people pick up on that I would have thought was
com
Hello everyone. The user notes is a great resource to most new users.
However there are snippets of junk there that are not only useless, but they
even get confusing at some time. I think there would be great to start a
program of checking such comments, I can help if needed (not yet involved in
th
On Apr 6, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Philip Olson wrote:
if you want to support user commentary, the only sane way is to
regularly peruse those comments, trash the garbage, and incorporate
the reasonable comments into the documentation proper. just leaving
the comments there in perpetuity is, IMHO, a
On 04/06/2010 09:52 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
>
> On Apr 6, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>
>> It's custom code for our docs, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to
>> bolt onto another system. Start here:
>
> Thanks so much for the thorough summary. This is very helpful.
>
> As to whe
On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Rich Bowen wrote:
>
>> A few of us on the Apache HTTP Server documentation team are
>> investigating what it would take to add a user commentary system to
>> the Apache HTTPD docs, like that used on the PHP docs. What soft
On Apr 6, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.php
if you look closely at that page, it's simply a ***table of
contents***, fer cryin' out loud. nevertheless, numerous commenters
found it necessary to expound on it. for what conceivable
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Robert, you could pitch in and help clean up and incorporate the
> comments then. I am sure Dan and the others would appreciate the
> help.
> There is simply too much user feedback and too few volunteers to get
> them all into the documentation in a ti
On Apr 6, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
It's custom code for our docs, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to
bolt onto another system. Start here:
Thanks so much for the thorough summary. This is very helpful.
As to whether we'll actually do this, I don't know. Expect a certain
On 04/06/2010 09:41 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Rich Bowen wrote:
>
>> A few of us on the Apache HTTP Server documentation team are
>> investigating what it would take to add a user commentary system to
>> the Apache HTTPD docs, like that used on the PHP docs. What software
>
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> if you want to support user commentary, the only sane way is to
> regularly peruse those comments, trash the garbage, and incorporate
> the reasonable comments into the documentation proper. just leaving
> the comments there in perpetuity
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Rich Bowen wrote:
> A few of us on the Apache HTTP Server documentation team are
> investigating what it would take to add a user commentary system to
> the Apache HTTPD docs, like that used on the PHP docs. What software
> is used for that? Is it easily reusable in other place
On 04/06/2010 08:25 AM, Philip Olson wrote:
>
> On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
>
>> A few of us on the Apache HTTP Server documentation team are investigating
>> what it would take to add a user commentary system to the Apache HTTPD docs,
>> like that used on the PHP docs. What s
On 04/06/2010 07:56 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> A few of us on the Apache HTTP Server documentation team are
> investigating what it would take to add a user commentary system to the
> Apache HTTPD docs, like that used on the PHP docs. What software is used
> for that? Is it easily reusable in other pl
On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> A few of us on the Apache HTTP Server documentation team are investigating
> what it would take to add a user commentary system to the Apache HTTPD docs,
> like that used on the PHP docs. What software is used for that? Is it easily
> reusable in
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:56, Rich Bowen wrote:
> A few of us on the Apache HTTP Server documentation team are investigating
> what it would take to add a user commentary system to the Apache HTTPD docs,
> like that used on the PHP docs. What software is used for that? Is it easily
> reusable in o
A few of us on the Apache HTTP Server documentation team are
investigating what it would take to add a user commentary system to
the Apache HTTPD docs, like that used on the PHP docs. What software
is used for that? Is it easily reusable in other places? Where can I
get some more info about
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