Re: Maintaining PHP 5 documentation

Hi team,

Zend has agreed to both host the legacy docs and dedicate time to
maintaining them. I already put together a site that displays the archives.

The docs are available here: https://php-legacy-docs.zend.com/
The archives are on GitHub: https://github.com/zendtech/php-legacy-docs
(still needs readme, license and all the gory details).
I fixed the style tags in the archives' HTML, so that contributors can
preview their changes locally with css.

I will be the main point of contact for the legacy docs until I can build a
community around them.

What kind of cross-linking do we want so that people don't get 404s? I
point to current PHP docs if they're available for a particular page.
Example 404 on php.net:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.sect.safe-mode.php#ini.safe-mode
Corresponding legacy link that can be the failover:
https://php-legacy-docs.zend.com/manual/php5/en/ini.sect.safe-mode#ini.safe-mode

Cheers!
Anna Filina

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 8:10 PM Larry Garfield <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020, at 5:32 PM, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> > On 04.12.2020 at 23:56, G. P. B. wrote:
> >
> > > As a reminder the PHP documentation is released under the Creative
> Commons
> > > Attribution 3.0 licence [1] and the tools made to build it are also
> open
> > > source.
> > > So anyone can just republish the archive online or fork the SVN/git
> repo
> > > from the
> > > commit prior to its removal and publish it online at some other
> address.
> > >
> > > So if someone wants to take ownership of that project they are free to
> do
> > > it and
> > > we can possibly sort out some way to link to it from the official docs
> with
> > > a
> > > disclaimer that doc bugs about the legacy docs should be redirect to
> that
> > > specific team.
> > >
> > > [1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/cc.license.php
> >
> > This appears to be a win-win scenario, so I'm fully supportive.
>
> On the hosting side, we'd be happy to host legacy docs at Platform.sh.
>
> --Larry Garfield
>