Re: Best practice for issues?

Noted. Apology.

Please, no further responses here.

JH


> —And this is when I scream:
>
> Everyone, *please use our GitHub issue tracker* for anything other 
> than administrative announcements:
>
>     https://github.com/w3c/font-text-cg/issues
>
>
> You never know what kind of a thread your short message will lead to, 
> and submitting anything involving written interaction to this list 
> will make it hard for others to refer to it in the future.
>
> Our GitHub repo’s issue tracker is meant to be used as a forum for any 
> discussions—not merely an “issue tracker”.
>
> Best,
> 梁海 Liang Hai
> https://lianghai.github.io
>
>> On Oct 14, 2020, at 00:11, r12a <ishida@w3.org 
>> <mailto:ishida@w3.org>> wrote:
>>
>> +10
>>
>> Otherwise we revert quickly to the thread spaghetti that we had in 
>> the bad old email discussion days. Untangling discussions and linking 
>> them automatically where useful is one of the wonderful things that 
>> GitHub issue threads brought us.
>>
>> ri
>>
>>
>> Chris Lilley wrote on 13/10/2020 16:57:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> To keep discussions on each issue together, it is much better to 
>>> post each one as a separate issue. Different issues will progress at 
>>> different rates.
>>>
>>> Contributors who remember more can also open new issues for those.
>>>
>>> On 2020-10-13 18:52, John Hudson wrote:
>>>> I have a shortlist of unresolved topics from ad hoc OTWG meetings 
>>>> dating back to 2014: things that were discussed at length, often 
>>>> more than once, but did not get as far as formal proposals or did 
>>>> not result in action being taken in terms of spec updates. I am 
>>>> wondering if I should post these as a single git issue, to which 
>>>> contributor could then add others they remember, or as single issues?
>>>>
>>>> JH
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>

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