[TAG: Process Improvement] Re: [PHP-DEV] Learning from Python: PEPping the PHP Development

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Just to clarify, I didn't propose taking the PEAR PEPr system verbatim. To be honest, I have never really used it, beyond skimming through things because it is handy that everything is in one place. I don't find our feature/change request category in the bugs database to be all that effective. Things tend to get lost in the noise there. I am not sure it would be effective, but I think it might be worth a try to have a single place for people to propose features and changes and to have an organized record of decisions surrounding these proposals. At the same time I absolutely hate using a web system for discussing things, so such a system should have an email gateway. As in: 1. Submit proposal to web app 2. web app sends it to internals@ or some other relevant list 3. Replies to that email automatically get picked up by the web app 4. Alternatively, you can add comments via the web app which would

    also get bounced to the relevant mailing list

One thing we could do is have a "TAG" message in our existing lists, when a discussion like this one becomes noteworthy, someone could respond with a subject "[TAG: Feature Request]" and that would propagate the conversation to the necessary portion of the web app? -Sterling