On Monday, May 28, 2018 4:37:06 AM CEST Yuriy Zhuravlev wrote: > > Can't see getting rid of those entirely. None of the github style > > platforms copes with reasonable complex discussions. > > I disagree. A good example of complex discussions on github is Rust > language tracker for RFCs: > https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues > and one concrete example: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2327 > I have no any problem with complex discussions on github.
It is indeed hard to follow on github, and would be even worse with bigger threads. Email readers show threads in a hierarchical way, we can see who answered to who, discussions can fork to completely different aspects of an issue without being mixed together.
Anyway I have no this feature on GMail web interface. But yes, sometimes it's usefull.
On github you can make new issue and move some messages, it shoud be done by moderator.
> Anyway, it's much better than tons of emails in your mailbox without tags > and status of discussion.
A github thread does not show what I read / what I have to read, does it now ?
On github you have notifications about new messages in subsribed issues, and if you follow links from https://github.com/notifications these links disappear.
Also, don't forget about browser bookmarks and other plugins for that, web much more flexible than emails.
None of which is about the build system.
FWIW, I don't agree with your conclusions re the build system. It's more than just a bunch of conservative dinosaurs not wanting to change how they do anything, though you can frame it that way if you like. It's that a change needs to offer really compelling benefits, and I don't think enough people are convinced of those benefits.
