if hosting it ourself is a priority, i suggest looking into GitLab’s Community Edition, which is entirely open source, and the GNOME project moved from Bugzilla to GitLab CE in 2018, here's how that worked out, 2 years later: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/09/08/gnome-follow-up/ (and the TL;DR is that it worked out great for the GNOME project)
On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 10:47, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: > Dear Internals, > > I think it is a mistake to decide on a whim to move over to GitHub > issues without having evaluated anything else. > > GitHub is a proprietary platform, where unlike with the code > repositories, the interactions and issues are not easy to migrate out of > again. It is also now owned by MSFT, and although they are making > friendly noises towards Open Source, I remain largely skeptical (with as > a hint, the stuff they're pulling with AI code completion). > > I understand and share that "bugsnet" has many issues, and I don't > necessarily object moving to something else. > > However, in the last 25+ years we've always hosted this ourselves, and > this prevented any sort of vendor lock in. I think it is important to > own our own data here, or at least have full access to any interactions. > > This jump to GitHub Issues feels rushed, and I worry that we end up > making the wrong decision, especially because from the RFC it seems we > need to build some functionality (tags scheme, for example) on top of > it. And this will need to be maintained separately, and I worry that too > few people are going to be interested in gardening the issues on GH. > > I believe we would be much better served having a look what is > available, and see what else is suitable. I'm therefore intending to > vote no on this. > > cheers, > Derick > > > On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Nikita Popov wrote: > > > Hi internals, > > > > The migration from bugs.php.net to GitHub issues has already been > discussed > > in https://externals.io/message/114300 and has already happened for > > documentation issues. > > > > I'd like to formally propose to use GitHub for PHP implementation issues > as > > well: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/github_issues > > > > Regards, > > Nikita > > > > -- > PHP 7.4 Release Manager > Host of PHP Internals News: https://phpinternals.news > Like Xdebug? Consider supporting me: https://xdebug.org/support > https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io > twitter: @derickr and @xdebug > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > >