> That is one of the best things you can do, translate the manual. That > helps a lot in spreading the word around the world about PHP. There used > to be bug statistics too, delving into who is closing bugs, and who are > commenting on them, but that was discontinued, due to people trying to > be part of the top listed developers.... It is better to provide quality > then to provide quantitiy, and these stats cannot measure quality. My > commits for example were mostly based around fixing stuff, which was > broken by others. Hartmut done a lot of maintanance commits, which > helped making him number one. I am very much convinced that the top > people are not exactly those who contribute the most content to the > manual. This is why I have always tried to convince people to turn down > any effort to create authors lists solely based on these stats. > > Goba
I've just made this stats initially because I had some curiosity about how many CVS accounts weren't used. Off course, writing the full documentation for a new extension (like I'm doing in Tidy) needs some work in researching the PHP code and the code in the library itself, because PHP devellopers often provide little documentation. And the bug system, also, closing a bug that only needs to fix a pontuation error or a mispelling word in really diferent from most documentation bugs that are still open, that require some research, talking with devellopers, and sometimes we don't really know what's the best place to document them. But both roles are important: as I'm portuguese, my english is far from perfect, so I like to have someone reviewing my docs. I'll not put anymore efforts in creating stats like these. I recognise all your and mine efforts to maintain this wonderfull open source language. I'm sure everybody would want to contribute more if they have time, but this work is just for free time. I try to have some time to work in PHP everyday, but this isn't always possible. Nuno P.S.: in one of my previous e-mail I've stated that I would start working in livedocs, however I hadn't time yet to do that, because this is my last year in school and I have to work/study so that I can get in the high scholl next year. But in the holidays I hope to work with didou/wez/ilia/and anybody else so that livedocs can be deployed as soon as possible to the mirrors. I don't want to re-start any war, but how the site is going? Will it be a reality?
