On Thursday, 28 May 2026 at 21:18, Jordi Kroon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I've opened an RFC to separate third-party extension documentation > (imagick, redis, mongodb, etc) from the official PHP manual, while > keeping the existing DocBook tooling and infrastructure. > > Bundled extensions (pdo, curl, etc) are out of scope and stay in the > official PHP manual. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/third_party_ext_documentation I'm fully in support of this RFC. Having maintained the docs for multiple years, the burden and frustration both for end users and doc maintainers to try and find who the maintainer (or even just the location of the sources) of an extension to be able to get clarifications usually results in long wait times, or never receiving a response. This means that the high standards we try to have for the PHP documentation are not evenly applied, nor can they, as the expertise doesn't exist within the core doc and php-src team. Moreover, it has been tradition to just remove unmaintained extensions from the doc sources after an archive has been made. Best regards, Gina P. Banyard
