I'm in full support of this idea. In order to have more meaningful and on topic discussions, we have to provide ourselves with the means and tools to do so. I think having a forum would be excellent.
Matthieu Napoli also suggested Discourse (http://www.discourse.org/) from the people at StackOverflow (which I'm sure we've all used). On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > As something of a response to "Wake up", perhaps some sort of "forum" > system for discussion would beat the mailing list. We wouldn't eradicate > the mailing list, but discussions could also take place there if people > wished to. > > I'm thinking, in particular, of something à la Reddit.com or Hacker News, > by which I mean has hierarchical replies with an upvote/downvote system. > The first advantage of such a system over the current one is that it > organises things so that you can see which post replied to which (aiding > readability). This would mean that related things are visually grouped. It > also allows you to express approval or disapproval of a post, so you can > then have it automatically sort by approval, such that posts with the most > "upvotes" float to the top. This is the second advantage, in that it shows > which opinions are most favoured. This usually enables more productive > discussions, because the "trend" as such is much clearer. > > As I've already said, I don't think this would entirely replace the > mailing list. But I'd like to see such a system in place as an alternative > to the mailing list for discussions. Perhaps the software could be > implemented such that all posts and replies on it would also be sent to the > mailing list in the appropriate format, so that people reading the mailing > list could still see what was going on. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
