I think it heavily depends on the quality and focus of the discussion.
Like you said, if the conversation is focused, it's nice to have the complete conversation present on that ticket.
However, very often, we all get sidetracked and start talking about 8 other things instead of what the ticket is actually about.
Perhaps a good middle ground would be to move discussion to the mailing list when it gets off topic, and when the discussion comes to some consensus post back to the ticket with the link from mail-archives and a general synopsis with what was agreed upon?
On 10/29/13, 12:32 PM, Keith Turner wrote:
I saw someone posted the following link on HBASE ticket and I thought it was interesting. I have participated and instigated long discussions on tickets that do not quickly converge. It may be better if we moved these to the mailing list as the link suggest. http://producingoss.com/en/bug-tracker-usage.html It would be nice to go to a ticket related a new 1.6.0 feature a year from now, read it, and get a clear understanding of what transpired (rather than be totally confused :). Keith
