<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 15, 2015, at 10:28 AM, David Owens II via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Why couple two systems together that don’t need to be? Also, using issues as a discussion list is really abusing it’s purpose. Is someone really going to go through and mark certain ones closed and others not?</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>There are several projects (Mozilla jumps out at me immediately) that use their bug system for most of these kinds of discussions.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100309" class="">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100309</a></div><div>(leaking into related projects I suppose: <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19371" class="">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19371</a> )<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>That said, we are even more on track here for Issues usage, since every evolution item is a feature request against the language. It would be really nice to be able to point new issues against pre-existing request topics, and to clearly mark them as deferred or won’t fix so they stop triggering fresh discussion.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-DW</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">By coupling the two systems together, you make it significantly more challenging change how the source code is stored and where. You’ve arbitrarily said that GitHub is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">the</i> way we are going to manage this project for all of time. How do you export all of the issues into another system now? </div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">It<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">might</i> be more convenient for some, but it creates long-term problems for no measurable short-term gain.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Also, your list of steps conveniently leaves out the setup process for a GitHub account. </div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>