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.e69f7...@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

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