Re: Email threading styles Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 06 Jun 2020 20:48 UTC

Am Sa., 6. Juni 2020 um 22:38 Uhr schrieb Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io>:

> > (An unfortunate counter-example is what has happened on the SRFI 177
> > lists: I think it is extremely hard for a newcomer to understand the
> > timeline of the discussion and, probably, the discussion as well.)
>
> I agree. The big trees can become almost unreadable. Hacker News
> (news.ycombinator.com) and similar platforms also organize the comments
> into trees, and have the same problem.

For very controversial would-be SRFIs like SRFI 177, which tries to
solve a really hard problem as we all have learned, a ticket-based
system like the issue system on Gitlab (or Github) could help to shape
a pre-SRFI, which is less controversial.