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PHP Internals News: Episode 78: Moving the PHP Documentation to GIT
London, UK
Thursday, March 11th 2021, 09:06 GMT
In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Andreas Heigl (Twitter, GitHub, Mastodon, Website) to follow up with his project to move the PHP Documentation project from SVN to GIT, which has now completed.
The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml, you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes. There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news
Transcript
Derick Rethans 0:15
Hi, I'm Derick. Welcome to PHP internals news, the podcast dedicated to explaining the latest developments in the PHP language. This is Episode 78. In this episode, I'm talking with Andreas Heigl about moving the PHP documentation to GIT. Andreas, would you please introduce yourself?
Andreas Heigl 0:35
Hi yeah I'm Andreas, I'm working in Germany at a company doing PHP software development. I'm doing a lot of stuff in between, as well. And one of the things that I got annoyed, was always having to go through hilarious ways of contributing to the PHP documentation, every time I found an issue with that. So at one point in time, I thought why not move that to Git and, well, here we are.
Derick Rethans 1:07
Here we are five years later, right? Because we already spoke about moving the documentation to GIT back in 2019 and Episode 28. But now it has finally happened, so I thought it'd be nice to catch up and see what actually has changed and how we ended up getting here. Where would you want to start. What was the hardest thing to sort out in the end?
Andreas Heigl 1:27
Well the hardest thing in the end to sort out was people, as probably always in software development. The technical oddities and the technical bits and pieces were rather fast to solve. What really was taking a long time was, well for one thing, actually, consistently working on that. And on the other hand, chasing down people to actually get stuff done. Because one of the major things here was not the technical side but getting the bits and pieces of information together to get access to the different servers, to the infrastructure of the PHP ecosystem, and chasing down the people that want to help you is one thing, and then chasing down the people that actually can help you is a completely different one. That was for me the most challenging bit, getting actually, to know who can do what and getting, yeah in the end, getting access to the actual machines, the whole ecosystem is running on that was really heavy.
Derick Rethans 2:34
The System Administration of PHP.net systems is very fragmented. There's some people having access to some machines and some other people having access to other machines and yea it sometimes takes some time to track down where are all these bits actually run.
Andreas Heigl 2:51
One thing is getting tracking down, where the bits run, the other one is, there is an excellent documentation in the wiki, the PHP wiki, which in some parts is kind of outdated. The other thing is, if you don't actually address the different people themselves personally, it is like screaming into the void so you can can send an email to 15 different people that have access to a box, like someone needs to do this and this and this. And everyone kind of seems to think, yeah, someone else can do that. I just don't have the time at this point in time Things get delayed, so you're waiting for an answer for a week; you do some other stuff, so two weeks go into the lab four weeks go into the land, and suddenly two months have passed. You didn't
PHP Internals News: Episode 78: Moving the PHP Documentation to GIT
London, UK
Thursday, March 11th 2021, 09:06 GMT
In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Andreas Heigl (Twitter, GitHub, Mastodon, Website) to follow up with his project to move the PHP Documentation project from SVN to GIT, which has now completed.
The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml, you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes. There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news
Transcript
Derick Rethans 0:15
Hi, I'm Derick. Welcome to PHP internals news, the podcast dedicated to explaining the latest developments in the PHP language. This is Episode 78. In this episode, I'm talking with Andreas Heigl about moving the PHP documentation to GIT. Andreas, would you please introduce yourself?
Andreas Heigl 0:35
Hi yeah I'm Andreas, I'm working in Germany at a company doing PHP software development. I'm doing a lot of stuff in between, as well. And one of the things that I got annoyed, was always having to go through hilarious ways of contributing to the PHP documentation, every time I found an issue with that. So at one point in time, I thought why not move that to Git and, well, here we are.
Derick Rethans 1:07
Here we are five years later, right? Because we already spoke about moving the documentation to GIT back in 2019 and Episode 28. But now it has finally happened, so I thought it'd be nice to catch up and see what actually has changed and how we ended up getting here. Where would you want to start. What was the hardest thing to sort out in the end?
Andreas Heigl 1:27
Well the hardest thing in the end to sort out was people, as probably always in software development. The technical oddities and the technical bits and pieces were rather fast to solve. What really was taking a long time was, well for one thing, actually, consistently working on that. And on the other hand, chasing down people to actually get stuff done. Because one of the major things here was not the technical side but getting the bits and pieces of information together to get access to the different servers, to the infrastructure of the PHP ecosystem, and chasing down the people that want to help you is one thing, and then chasing down the people that actually can help you is a completely different one. That was for me the most challenging bit, getting actually, to know who can do what and getting, yeah in the end, getting access to the actual machines, the whole ecosystem is running on that was really heavy.
Derick Rethans 2:34
The System Administration of PHP.net systems is very fragmented. There's some people having access to some machines and some other people having access to other machines and yea it sometimes takes some time to track down where are all these bits actually run.
Andreas Heigl 2:51
One thing is getting tracking down, where the bits run, the other one is, there is an excellent documentation in the wiki, the PHP wiki, which in some parts is kind of outdated. The other thing is, if you don't actually address the different people themselves personally, it is like screaming into the void so you can can send an email to 15 different people that have access to a box, like someone needs to do this and this and this. And everyone kind of seems to think, yeah, someone else can do that. I just don't have the time at this point in time Things get delayed, so you're waiting for an answer for a week; you do some other stuff, so two weeks go into the lab four weeks go into the land, and suddenly two months have passed. You didn't