Hey folks! After some years we are finally at the point to do what so many have been asking for: We will move the source-control of the PHP-Documentation from SVN to git!
Tomorrow! TL;DR Tomorrow we will remove docs-karma from SVN, do a final transition and then add doc-karma to git. Then all contributions to the PHP-Documentation will be via git.php.net Slightly longer version: Throughout the last year we continuously moved the commits from SVN over to the different repositories at git.php.net. 2 Days ago we finally switched the actually creation of the docs from using the SVN-sources to using the git-sources. It was a seamless transition and the broken translations were broken before. So we managed to switch the VCS without anyone noticing ;-) But that will not be possible for the next step. As everyone that is currently contributing to the docs via SVN will need to do at least 2 things to be able to continue contributing! * Checkout the docs-base from https://git.php.net/repository/doc/base.git * Check out the english documentation from g...@git.php.net:/doc/en.git And if you are doing translations: * Check out your respective language from g...@git.php.net:/doc/[language].git Yes! You've seen that right! We moved away from the monorepo to one repo per language. As at this point in time there are access restrictions on the different languages this was a necessary move. There are pros and cons to that that were addressed when we started that voyage. And you can feel free to discuss them as soon as the transition has been made and you have found someone doing the necessary work for a further change ;-) And as git doesn't know about "revisions" we had to change one thing for the translations: So far you kept the revision of the english doc you base the translation on in the attribute "en-revision". That will now change! After the switch you will need to add the _commit-hash_ of the english doc there instead! Apart from that the translation workflow itself stays the same. We only changed the Version Control System, nothing else. So what will be the next steps now? As already mentioned: Sometime tomorrow we will switch off karma for svn.php.net. Then we will do one last transition to git and modify the repos so that the revision is replaced by the commit-hash Then we will switch karma on for git.php.net And when that is finished, we will create the github mirrors so that everyone can create PRs for the docs and the translations! That's it. Almost... As there is one thing though that is not done yet which we need some help with: The revision-check! For those of you that do not know what it is: Head over to http://doc.php.net/revcheck.php and have a look. In short: It shows how outdated a translation is. This was tightly coupled to SVN and it is much harder to convert to git as originally anticipated. So any help on that is highly appreciated! Patches for http://git.php.net/?p=web/doc.git;a=blob;f=scripts/rev.php are definitely welcome! But that is something for a new challenge! Looking forward to being able to put a decade long challenge for the community and a 4+ year challenge for me to a good end tomorrow! Let's all cross fingers that everything goes as smooth as expected! Cheers For the team: Andreas -- ,,, (o o) +---------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-+ | Andreas Heigl | | mailto:andr...@heigl.org N 50ยฐ22'59.5" E 08ยฐ23'58" | | https://andreas.heigl.org | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | https://hei.gl/appointmentwithandreas | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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