Re: Choice of bug tracker

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: brickviking <brickviking@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:03:44 +0000
> 
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
> 
> >> Yup. It feels "illegal" to open side discussions out of debbugs email
> >> threads. Though, on the second thought, nothing should stop users from
> >> branching off the thread into emacs-devel while dropping debbugs
> >> address.
> >
> > The common approach is modern trackers is to create a new issue# for 
> > every sub-discussion, and leave a link to it in the parent one.
> 
> ... and it is what I dislike about modern trackers.
> Email threads make such branching trivial.

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.