Re: Moving issues to GitHub

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Nikita Popov <[email protected]> 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
>

I have enabled issues on github and set up the forwarding to this list. The
category on bugs.php.net is also still available, so we can just see how
this goes and then kill off one of the two at some point.

Nikita