Hi Andreas, Andreas Enge <[email protected]> writes:
> Am Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 08:28:24AM +0900 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: >> That means past discussions are lost, which is not great (compare this >> to the email based workflow, where archiving the mailing list as a whole >> is simple/cheaper). > > Well, indeed. I have never looked back at the public email archives (except > for a few times they were cited by someone else in a discussion). In the > end it amounts to preferences. I do not think past discussions on pull > requests necessarily have to be kept forever; the outcome appears in the > git repository. The archived guix-devel mailing list is valuable to revisit why something was implemented in a given way; not having the discussion that led to some design archived/available publicly could lead to choices in the code being re-questioned/revisited without having access to the original discussions that pertained to them. The archives are also useful to find past packaging attempts that were abandoned and didn't lead to changes to the git repo. -- Thanks, Maxim
