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Contributing to PHP
Contributing to PHP
Anybody who programs in PHP can be
contributing member of the community that develops and
Four Best Ways to Contribute
deploys it; the task of deploying PHP documentation and associated websites is
never
ending
Development of the PHP
one. With every release,
or release candidate comes a wave of work; which takes
lot of
source
organization and co-ordination:
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With the introduction of release managers comes
smoother release process, but help is still
needed:
 testing release candidates, finding and squashing bugs in tests, documentation, and
sources;
Four Best Ways to Contribute
1. Running test suites in RC and release distributions of PHP
2. Help finding and diagnosing failed tests, see the phpt documentation
3. Filing and resolving bug reports at
php net
Help maintain and or translate documentation files at the doc-* repositories on github: Check
out our
for contributors
Development of the PHP source
Someone hoping to become involved in the maintenance and development of the source should
be
experienced in all of the areas mentioned above_
as this creates
strong team; everyone knows
how every other part ofthe project works:
You will also need experience in C programming as PHP is written entirelv in C
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