Re: Website requests

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Bert de Jong wrote: > Forums. I'd really like to see a forum where php users could discuss different > issues on different forums. I know there is a news-server, but I think it > would be much more accessible and so much more php-style if there were a web > forum. > I think this would really add to the usability of the php website! The power of the forums would come from the people who really know PHP well participating. Most of us who fall into that category much prefer to provide such support via our existing mailing lists. Setting up a separate forum system would dilute our support and separate it into two groups with the same questions and answers likely to pop up on both systems. I also think you underestimate the scale that such a system would have to be. We have mirror sites all around the world that would look like second-class citizens if they didn't have the forums. If we only put the forums on the main www.php.net site people might not go to the mirrors leaving us with way more hits than we can handle on a single server. So we would have to have a distributed forum system capable of near real-time replication across 100+ servers all around the world. Do you know of such a system? As far as the summary goes, providing a weekly summary is a big commitment. If someone would volunteer to do this on a regular basis and commit to do it consistently we would be happy to put it up. -Rasmus