Chapter 10. The phpdoc, php-doc-chm and php-notes Mailing Lists

The XML content of phpdoc files is updated from day to day, and on busy days from hour to hour. To follow the updates in the English tree and any other language's tree and also participate in the discussions, it is highly recommended that you subscribe to the mailing list. You can subscribe by sending a blank mail to phpdoc-subscribe@lists.php.net. Similarly you can unsubscribe by sending a blank mail to phpdoc-unsubscribe@lists.php.net. There is a web interface for these tasks at http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php.

Currently this list receives messages from the following senders:

This long list of mail types can be scaring for someone, who can't process the many mails posted to the list. For this reason the team is thinking about separating the list to language specific list, so commits in the foreign languages trees won't posted to the main list. Although this is just a plan now.

If you can't handle the load of this mailing list in your mailbox, you can read the messages three ways:

You can also set up some filter on incoming mail messages, so you get the most important things, and can participate in the discussions while do not need to read big diff messages. To ease the filtering the commit messages coming from the CVS server, that are larger then 8kb, are put into attachements. You can always see the commit message and file list in the body, but the diff is in an attachement.

As the Windows HTMLHelp Edition of the manual is evolving in an incredible way, there is a separate mailing list for CHM related discussions and announcements. You can subscribe to this mailing list at http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php using the web interface.

There is also a mailing list named php-notes. You can access it the same way as the phpdoc list (just substitute phpdoc with php-notes). This list is the place where all the manual notes are posted. You may consider subscribing to this mailing list if you would like to help manage the notes.