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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Move internals discussion to a better medium
From: me@stephencoakley.com (Stephen Coakley)

On 08/02/2015 03:34 PM, Rowan Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 11:04 PM Stig Bakken <stig@stigbakken.com> wrote:
>>> Are you being serious? Can you provide examples of projects that have
>>> successfully replaced their developer mailing lists with GitHub issues?
>>>
>
> On 02/08/2015 21:05, Dor Tchizik wrote:
>> I already have. iojs (and soon, nodejs), as well as Rust which was
>> mentioned by someone else.
>
> I don't know about io/node, but Rust most certainly have not replaced a
> mailing list with the issue tracker; they've replaced it with a
> web-based forum. They use the issue tracker for RFCs, where PHP uses a
> mix of wiki and nominated discussion threads, but you started this
> thread talking about the discussions, not the RFCs.
>
> Regards,
>

Yeah, issue tracking isn't really the right thing for daily discussions. 
A forum would be a reasonable alternative to a mailing list, however.

-- 
Stephen Coakley