On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 12:31, Peter Kokot <peterko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Plastic analogy - adding "127.0.0.1 github.com" to your /etc/hosts > file shows that developer cannot bring most of the today's (PHP) > projects to any working state without using it. That's what is meant > by inevitable because everything open source today is either on GitHub > and some minor ones scattered around custom Git repos and other Git > hosting providers. > Ah, I see. Yes, having some usage of GitHub is currently pretty much inevitable in that sense. Of course, that may change eventually, just as SourceForge fell out of favour, but that's not something we need to worry about. However, projects over a certain size generally *don't* use it as their main or only discussion platform, which is what we're talking about here. > PHP is already using GitHub. Is it moving to > something else? No, so let's not complicate things more with other > hosting providers now. > The question is not "should PHP ban the use of GitHub for any kind of activity?" it's "should PHP abandon the discussion processes it's been using for most of its history and use GitHub as a discussion forum?". As a code collaboration platform, GitHub is pretty good, but it's not built as a discussion forum, and there are plenty of limitations to using it as one. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]
