On 02/08/15 13:52, Rowan Collins wrote: > As a final note, while encouraging new users is definitely a good thing, any > project the size of PHP will always have a core set of developers who spend a > lot of time working on and discussing it. If you make those people's lives > difficult, no amount of shiny markdown is going to recover their lost effort, > so any process change has to be carefully considered from that angle.
My own mail archive of this list goes back to 2004 although I have previous messages in a less searchable format. What messes up that archive is mainly the poor quality of quoting resulting in substantial dross from the likes of top posters quoting all the previous sigs, but I strip those messages and am left with a nice historic record of developments. https://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg79689.html provides a nice searchable version of the original raw messages and yes <news://news.php.net/> provides a downloadable set of older material. The mechanism itself is not broken, only the less than ideal following of the guidelines in using it. NONE of the 'on-line' alternatives still provide as good an alternative for on and off line working! So until the whole world has perfect 100% available high speed internet ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
