Re: [RFC] Union Types v2 (followup on github usage)

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 08:37, Côme Chilliet <come@opensides.be> wrote: > > > PHP have no control over github, and cannot know how it will evolve. > > > > > > (they can change the platform tomorrow and internal won’t be able to > do anything about it). > > > > Those are hypothetically problems. But they do not appear to be > > currently problems. > > The fact that PHP has no control over github is current, this is not > hypothetical. > The idea that the platform will change overnight in a way that makes it unusable by the project is hypothetical. > It’s not the same when the project can act to fix it and when the project > is powerless. > If github blocks someone from commenting we cannot do anything about it. > Are you aware of any heavy-handed moderation on github, or is this, again, a hypothetical problem? As you will see from my other responses on this thread, I'm not totally sold on github in particular, but I can see pros and cons more generally: - our own systems, fully in our control, but used by nobody else, and managed by a handful of volunteers - or: a well-established third-party system, which could change in unpredictable ways, but is widely used, and supported by hundreds of paid staff Even the mailing list relies on third-party software; I presume it gets updated regularly, and those updates could include changes in functionality we disagree with. There is a pragmatic decision to be made between building absolutely everything from scratch, and trusting some third parties, with contingency plans if that trust proves ill-founded. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]