Daniel Lorch wrote:
> I think what confuses many people is the name of this mailinglist:
> "PHP Development" which is ambiguous: Developing PHP (in C) or Developing
> FOR PHP (meaning "PHP scripts").
>
> Probably by clarifying this out, fewer support questions would be asked
> here.
1) the original message you were just refering to was generated by
the bug database, so whatever we name the list has no influence
on these kind of messages
all we can do about it in this case is to display the
"how to report a bug that someone will want to help fix"
link on both the bug systems homepage and the bug reporting
form in maybe a flashing red 48 point font ... and even
that might not help :(
2) the list itself is rather well hidden on the subscription page
you have to scroll down to see it (unless you have a *real* big
screen) while all the general and specific support lists are
near the top
in addition to that the table header "Lists for the developers of
PHP, php.net and documentations" and the list description itself
"Developer list: A medium volume list for those who want to help out
with the development of PHP" are rather clear
maybe we could add a "you should know how to code in C" disclaimer
here ;) but IMHO we have far less off topic support requests on this
list these days than we used to have in the past ...
what *really* confuses me are the support requests that find their
way to the php-lang list every once in a while, although it isn't
even announced anymore ...???
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