Do we intentionally allow non-public comments on jira? That is, currently commenters on our issue tracker can choose to restrict their comments to the roles we've defined (like contributors, developers, project admins, etc).
Comments so restricted do not go to the issues@hbase list and so "don't exist" from the asf's stated policies. My thinking is that any sensitive topics that need to be brought up already have a mechanism: private@hbase. For anything else, speakers should stand by their words. -- Sean
