Re: [STANDARDS] Moving issues to GitHub

Hello,

I would love to see this. For most contributors, it makes sense, and it 
will ease/increase new contributions I guess.


On 13.12.16 22:01, Nikita Popov wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to propose that the issues for the language specification be moved
> from bugs.php.net to GitHub Issues. I realize that the usual php.net policy
> is to avoid the use of GH issues, but I think there are good reason to not
> use bugs.php.net for the language specification, in particular:
>
> 1. I think the spec would benefit from the ability to quickly record minor
> deficiencies (like "incorrect precedence for print expression"). There are
> currently some people using the language specification to guide
> implementation and, of course, this often results in minor errors being
> found. However, these errors never make it to bugs.php.net. Instead, they
> are either PRed directly (good) or, quite commonly, lost in the comments of
> a 3rd party repository (bad). I think this has a lot to do with bugs.php.net
> being a bad interface for this purpose.
>
> 2. Anyone who is subscribed to this list will know that maybe 90% of all
> bugs submitted under the "Language Specification" category on bugs.php.net
> are bogus. They are being used as a general PHP feature request category,
> rather than a place to report issues with the specification. Presumably,
> moving to GitHub issues would avoid this issue, because the issues would be
> located in the langspec repo, rather than a general purpose PHP bugtracker.
>
> If we do this, I will update the GH webhook that is currently sending PRs
> to this list to also send Issues here.
>
> Regards,
> Nikita
>