[swift-evolution] Github Issues

[Tim Hawkins]

The other problem with using an issue tracker as a discusion system, is
that any topic that ages off the first page of results  pretty much
disappears from everybodies conciousness. I kind of prefer the firehose
that the mail list provides.
On Feb 11, 2016 9:59 AM, "Kevin Ballard via swift-evolution" <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> GitHub's issue tracker is pretty awful. Not only is it missing a lot of
> functionality that one would expect from an issue tracker, it also fails
> horribly at a vehicle for discussion. GitHub issues simply don't scale well
> for discussions that go beyond a handful of messages.
>
> -Kevin Ballard
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, at 06:41 AM, James Campbell via swift-evolution wrote:
>
> A while back I brought up the fact that since Swift is developed openly in
> Github perhaps the best way to discuss changes is in Github itself.
>
> This was a very controversal topic. Overall my feeling is it would help
> people to keep up with discussions and to duck out of ones they don't care
> about. I wasn't the only one to feel this way and got some good support for
> this.
>
> My inbox is 75% swift-evolution for things I don't care about. I think
> things have gotten a bit crazy as this week in the latest #NatashaTheRobot
> someone has now built a custom app just to organize the swift evolution
> talks
>
> https://stylemac.com/hirundo
>
> Think about this, someone has felt that following these discussions is
> that hard. That not only is two daily newsletters not enough but we should
> need a special app for this.
>
> If this doesn't say the mailing list is a bad idea, I don't know what is.
> Add that to the face I've seen at least 5 or 6 times the same topic
> re-posted as it went on a wild tangent, people lost where somebody said
> something important or a bunch of other stuff was posted so everyone
> ignored that email.
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