Re: Move internals discussion to a better medium
| From: | Markus Malkusch | Date: | Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:32:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Move internals discussion to a better medium | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Dor Tchizik wrote:
> Currently, PHP discussions are held on the various mailing lists, managed
> by an old mailing list system, without any proper alternative interface to
> follow and respond outside of mailing.
What wrong with <news://news.php.net/>?
> I propose that internals discussion to be moved (eventually entirely) to a
> different medium, where the example I have in mind is GitHub issues
That's an issue tracker (and to be honest not one of the best). I don't see
any benefit there. Furthermore participating requires a github.com
registration whereas this medium is free to use. And you know what happend
to the last big player (namely sourceforge)? Github can go loko as well.
> - GitHub issues can reference other issues (currently impossible with
> the mailing list
Let's reference something then <news:E6.64.22108.E69F7B55@pb1.pair.com>
> - GitHub issues are searchable. You have tags.
Newsserver are searchable as well. At least you could wrap the current
infrastructure easily into a search engine.
Markus Malkusch