cite: "I hope this is a joke." i guess that is the stuff they where talking about.
greetings, daniel 2013/9/11 Johannes Schlüter <johan...@schlueters.de> > On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 13:59 +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote: > > It is based on the fact that there are too many people writing to > internals > > and mailing lists are not actually manageable at this level. I stopped > > following all the stuff around a year ago, when I started to get like 15 > to > > 30 maillist threads in my inbox daily (hundreds of mails) and too much > > noise. > > Get a better mail client and better mail filters. > > > So, I think, it's time to move to a forum. > > I hope this is a joke. > > > Actual forum, that can be > > managed, can have sections dedicated to certain stuff and has user > > We have multiple lists for different things. > > > management that allows to mute or actually ban people who are not able to > > behave, troll and do other kind's of stupid stuff that disrupts the work. > > We can ban people and have done that twice or so. PHP is open. If people > annoy you, you can filter them out. > > > Many devs are already just ignoring this mailing list, so what is the > point > > of having it if relevant people just don't read it? > > People read what they consider interesting and ignore other threads, and > I assume this here will end in many ignores. > > > The list should remain of course, just to be used as a notification tool > > for new important forum threads, RFC's, daily/weekly digest so that those > > who have less time can still follow all the stuff in a compact manner. > > While loosing the structuring proper mail programs offer and having > media breaks - switching between forums and mail. > > Just a simple examples what mail can do: I can write a mail to the list > an CC the relevant maintainer to draw his attention and he can directly > answer from there. Or I can xpost to bring a discussion from the "CVS" > list, about some "bad" commit to internals. Mail is open, forums are > locking in. > > I haven't seen any useful forum. If Google/Bing/duckduck send me to a > forum it's always a pain to follow those completely unstructured > discussions (mail has In-Reply-to headers allowing a proper client to > sort/nest accordingly etc.) > > > johannes > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
