Good evening everybody, Levi Morrison wrote: > I feel that we have a lot of 'silent' people reading the list. If they had some way they can quietly voice their opinion that would greatly benefit everyone. My thinking is that voting can allow that to happen without creating noise. I am open to other suggestions that would facilitate quiet contribution.
Although I can't contribute to the PHP internal development, I am always interested to see what's going on "in the core" and eager to read the newest RFCs and ideas provided by the community. Maintaining an overview of all email discussions has become harder in the last years due to the fact that there is a lot more communication (and a bit too much flame war recently) going on and using sort/filter mechanism inside my mail program is IMHO way more complicated than following the same discussion in an online forum plus you always have all the discussions available everywhere without the need of accessing your private mail program. Especially the idea of using Discourse as an alternative to the mailing list (I personally think using both the list and forum software would split both community and discussions) sounds reasonable and forward-looking, it would allow a lot of us "silent" people to participate in the discussion through voting for good ideas which didn't happen on the list. The entire StackOverflow community has become huge due to the advantages of its way of communication, through involving and motivating their users and a straight-forward approach when it comes to filtering i.e. based on topics, labels or votes. I see great potential in testing Discourse or comparable software as future replacement of / extension to the internals mailing list and would love to see some playground version in the future to test its benefits for the PHP community. Just my two cents in this discussion. Best regards, Sascha -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
