Crell* sorry On Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 9:09:32 AM UTC+3 [email protected] wrote:
> Hi, > > GitHub is more than server with repositories, it's a social network > for developers. > > And even if discussions sound like not the main feature of GitHub, > it have way more abilities in formatting texts, voting, etc. > Example of discussion there: > https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/pull/1218 > Quite readable, isn't it? > > But then comes Creel and states: "To that end, please start a thread on > the mailing list to discuss it,". > Author of PhpStan replied perfectly: > > > Hi, I was already participating in the PSR-5 draft discussion and I > found out that discussions > > about tech specs over mailing lists are not my cup of tea > > and I have other things with higher priority in my life :) > > But you can create just empty repository with single file README.md and > discuss everything > there if moving to normal forum engine like https://github.community is a > so huge problem, that > you can't fix it several years. > > On Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 3:19:22 AM UTC+3 [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Le 2020-08-11 à 11:06, [email protected] a écrit : >> > Hi, >> > >> > I noticed that many people really dislike this mailing list. There are >> > many reasons: >> > >> > * PHP community wants to see your GitHub profiles, be more open; >> > * no sane highlighting of the code (for discussions about code); >> > * very obsolete messaging system in general: it's like plain text vs >> > native GUI; >> > * lack of on mailing lists: emoji system as voting mechanism for >> > simple voting and for hot discussions where someone asks reasonable >> > question, but it drowns and nobody sees it (on GitHub it's hard to >> > avoid question with many 👍 signs); >> > * GitHub offers diffs for edited comments; >> > * moderators can tag issues there; >> > * mailing-list gives worse feedback by PHP community; don't be bad >> > politicians: that's good when you have better feedback. >> > >> > This question was raised not a once if I recall correctly: you planned >> > to move somewhere like a modern forum. >> > >> > Why separate repository in the https://github.com/php-fig group can't >> > be simple solution? >> >> >> I do not know GitHub much, but I do not understand your suggestion. A >> GitHub repository is designed to store code, not discussions (nor >> voting, nor politics). >> >> >> > [...] >> >> -- >> Philippe Cloutier >> http://www.philippecloutier.com >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/b994b871-fbd1-4fad-a1c8-5162e6cf5bcbn%40googlegroups.com.
