On 26 June 2011 15:38, Philip Olson <phi...@roshambo.org> wrote: > > On Jun 24, 2011, at 6:20 AM, Sam Hastings wrote: > >> Maintaining the documentation > > Hello Sam, > > Contributing begins with patches, which soon turns into SVN access. In other > words, you should check out the PHP documentation source files, fix things, > then submit a patch or three. Once people realize that you're a sane person > who wants to contribute, then you'll gain SVN commit access.
Just a note to say that the sane part is optional, it is the demonstrated willingness to contribute that is important. Good luck. :) > > And this howto is a good place to start: > > http://wiki.php.net/doc/howto > > As an example starting point, the following script checks out the doc sources > and setups a local doc environment: > > $ wget > http://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/doc-base/trunk/scripts/create-phpdoc-setup.php > $ php create-phpdoc-setup.php -l en -b ~/phpdocs > $ cd ~/phpdocs/doc-en > $ vim en/stuff.xml > $ php doc-base/configure.php > > Please ask questions here or in IRC (#php.doc on efnet), and talk to you > soon! :) > > Regards, > Philip > >
