Re: Moving issues to GitHub

Hi! On 12/13/16 1:01 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to propose that the issues for the language specification be moved > from bugs.php.net to GitHub Issues. I realize that the usual php.net policy > is to avoid the use of GH issues, but I think there are good reason to not > use bugs.php.net for the language specification, in particular: We can use Github for small issues like typoes etc. and still use bugs.php.net for ones that require discussion/attention still use our bug tracking system. > 2. Anyone who is subscribed to this list will know that maybe 90% of all > bugs submitted under the "Language Specification" category on bugs.php.net > are bogus. They are being used as a general PHP feature request category, > rather than a place to report issues with the specification. Presumably, > moving to GitHub issues would avoid this issue, because the issues would be > located in the langspec repo, rather than a general purpose PHP bugtracker. I don't think this is a correct solution. Maybe we need to find better label than "Language Specification" but splitting bug system because we have some wrongly assigned bugs doesn't look like a good idea. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com