Forwarding this to internals because I mistakenly replied to an email directly.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 2:33 AM Peter Bowyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Currently there are people with voting permissions that do vote, yet do > not interact with RFCs or the mailing list. > > On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 23:34, Bob Magic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i'd say we need something more modern and transparent than this old > mailing > > list, but i completely lack a suggestion that isn't somehow worse than > what > > we got now in terms of massively multiplayer discussion. > > > > I have now been contacted by 2 people who tried multiple times to join this > mailing list and cannot. > > It took me 5 weeks for my signup to work. During that time I emailed the > different @php.net mailboxes related to infrastructure and/or the web and > received no response. Eventually I managed to sign up - once I created this > brand-new Gmail account. The signup form is unreliable. > > There are people wanting to take part in discussions who can't. > > I volunteer to help sort this. Can someone who knows the PHP group > procedures please tell me the next steps? > > Peter > Disclaimer: I am scanning a previous conversation while composing this email. It has been a month since I dived into this code, so this email may contain some inaccuracies, I ask for your patience in that regard. It was noted off-list that there are difficulties with subscribing to mailing lists. Ramsey and I looked at the code about a month ago, discovered that there are some broken bits around https://github.com/php/web-php/blob/7d6e63b6163e1991077822b71f7ba561e5171286/mailing-lists.php#L66-L89 and https://github.com/php/web-master/blob/819070de35a7b167766d3d64cbb0b450327eed7b/public/entry/subscribe.php#L9-L14. He was able to get the subscription code working locally while running 7.4, but the code does not work on 8.0, due to removed functions. See also: https://github.com/php/web-php/blob/master/include/layout.inc#L251 , https://github.com/php/web-php/blob/master/mailing-lists.php#L99. With that said, I want to invest time to resolve this, but I am currently working on other things, and thus haven't had time to volunteer to fix it. I can only speak for myself, but if someone wanted to take upon themselves to resolve this, I would greatly appreciate it. Also, note that subscription via email is possible: > If you experience trouble subscribing via the form above, you may also subscribe by sending an email to the list server. To subscribe to any mailing list, send an email to [email protected] (substituting the name of the list for listname — for example, [email protected]).
