Re: Introduction: Louis-Arnaud Catoire, doc contributor

On 18/06/2026 4:02 pm, Louis Arnaud Catoire wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I would like to introduce myself. My name is Louis-Arnaud Catoire
> (GitHub: lacatoire), and I have been contributing to the PHP
> documentation for quite a while now.
> 
> So far I have opened around 50 pull requests on php/doc-en, mostly
> documenting PHP 8.4 and 8.5 additions (new functions, constants,
> changelog entries) across many extensions (intl, pgsql, ldap, openssl,
> filter, session, and others). I also contribute to several
> translations (doc-fr, doc-es, doc-ru, doc-tr, doc-de, doc-pt_br),
> where I do EN syncs and language fixes, and I have started working on
> tooling to detect XML structure drift between translations and the
> English tree.
> 
> Given this track record, I would like to ask whether it would be
> possible to get commit access to the documentation. My goal is to help
> more broadly: reviewing and merging other contributors' pull requests,
> and helping with structural and toolchain work, rather than only
> submitting my own changes. I am of course happy to start gradually and
> to follow whatever process the team prefers.
> Thank you all for the great work on the manual.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Louis-Arnaud

Hi Louis-Arnoud,

I want to thank you for your contribution. They have been very valuable 
towards creating a more complete documentation. Especially towards 
reflecting the missing PHP 8.4 and 8.5 from the migration guide.

As for doc-en. I have seen your quality improve and it would help to 
have you onboard with commit access. For that reason it would be good if 
you could the PHP Community Discord [1]. On Discord there is a dedicated 
channel for the Documentation team.

I will also have to check if we can add you to the PHP Foundation Slack.

Both of these channels will help collaborating more easily, to get to 
know eachother and to share feedback.

However I should mention that I know you have been very active syncing 
the EN changes across the doc-lang repositories but it's giving the 
creeps out of me. If I am correct you are using LLMs for these 
translations, and unless you know these languages you cannot verify if 
they are fully correct. So as for the quality I have to trust on the 
maintainers of these languages. Though I would personally recommend you 
to stay with languages you are comfortable with.

[1] https://discord.com/channels/356354025865740288/970787522718355456

Cheers, and hopefully see you there.

Jordi Kroon