Re: Choice of bug tracker

[Stefan Kangas]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> > It isn't trivial when people respond to several threads in the same
> > message.  You can see examples of this on this list, just look at the
> > recent large threads.
>
> I can see how that is a problem. So, is it a +1 for "modern trackers"
> and -1 for "mailing lists"?

Perhaps, yes.  I'd definitely be much happier if we had a bug tracker
that made it possible to split threads after the fact.  If that's
something you can do with a "modern tracker", then it would certainly
help.

We are more disciplined these days, but I have seen many old,
sprawling bug threads with dozens upon dozens of replies, more than
half of which are about something else entirely.  Coming back to such
threads after N years, as I've often done, it does take a long time to
find some signal in there: to figure out what is fixed, what is not,
what is a separate issue, and so on.