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] Discord
Cheers, and hopefully see you there.
Jordi Kroon