On 2 August 2015 15:26:00 BST, Niklas Keller <m...@kelunik.com> wrote:
>How about a tool like Phabricator?

I've never used Phabricator, but it does look like a nice project management 
tool. I first heard of it in reference to Wikimedia migrating a whole bunch of 
teams to it as a unified tool. However, it's perhaps relevant to note that I 
can see nothing in their migration plans that implies the mediawiki-l and 
wikitech-l mailing lists will be retired, suggesting that they still see a use 
for good old-fashioned e-mail groups.

I think part of the problem with concentrating on how easy it is to filter down 
to  specific tasks is that what new users actually need is the opposite: an 
overview of what's going on, and a place where broad topics won't be closed as 
an Invalid Task. That then serves as an entry into more specific task-based 
activity. 

If every thread on PHP Internals was converted to a tree of linked Issues in a 
database of thousands of threads, how would you know where to begin?

And how would busy core devs avoid missing an important discussion happening on 
an Issue which mutates from a user's bug report to a breaking change in the 
language? I'm not saying what we have now is perfect for that, but a post to 
Internals can draw attention to the one bug in hundreds where that has 
happened, and allow the wider issue to be discussed separately from the 
line-by-line code review of a patch.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]


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