<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 30, 2016, at 00:50, Chris Angelico <<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com" class="">rosuav@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Ian Lee <<a href="mailto:ianlee1521@gmail.com" class="">ianlee1521@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Such a repository could address a number of items brought up above,<br class="">including providing a permanent link to artifacts: comments and threads<br class="">(issues in the issue tracker). The ability to watch the entire “repo"<br class="">(mailing list) and unsubscribe to “issues” (threads) that are no longer<br class="">interesting to a watcher (similarly to the way “muting” works in Gmail). Or<br class="">vice versa, have notifications off by default and able to opt into<br class="">notifications if something interesting catches your eye.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">How do you change the subject line to indicate that the topic has<br class="">drifted (or is a spin-off), while still appropriately quoting the<br class="">previous post?<br class=""><br class="">Most web-based discussion systems are built around a concept of<br class="">"initial post" and "replies", where the replies always tie exactly to<br class="">one initial post. The branching of discussion threads never seems to<br class="">work as well as it does in netnews or email.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>True, you don’t get quite as nice forking of issues, though other solutions mentioned (e.g. StackOverflow) would have similar issues.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Off the cuff, I’d suggest that this linking could be handled by creating a new issue which linked to the old issue [1] with something like “continuing from #12345 …”. This would actually provide an improvement over the current email approach which only really provides a link from the forked thread back to the original, by creating a reference / link to the forked issue in the original, e.g. how [2] and [3] are linked.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>[1] <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/autolinked-references-and-urls/#issues-and-pull-requests" class="">https://help.github.com/articles/autolinked-references-and-urls/#issues-and-pull-requests</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/python/typing/issues/135" class="">https://github.com/python/typing/issues/135</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>[3] <a href="https://github.com/python/typing/issues/136" class="">https://github.com/python/typing/issues/136</a></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">ChrisA<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Python-ideas mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Python-ideas@python.org" class="">Python-ideas@python.org</a><br class="">https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas<br class="">Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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