> Except forums are shit if you want to have different discussions about four somewhat-related patches. How do you handle trees of discussion like that?
You're literally typing this into a forum that supports that kind of tree of discussion, and you're literally having a side-conversation right now. A web forum can implement any style of conversation you can conceive; the web's very generic that way.
I think GitHub deliberately doesn't support that kind of thing because they want to encourage having lots of little issues instead of a few big ones. It does get annoying for pull requests, though...
You're literally typing this into a forum that supports that kind of tree of discussion, and you're literally having a side-conversation right now. A web forum can implement any style of conversation you can conceive; the web's very generic that way.
I think GitHub deliberately doesn't support that kind of thing because they want to encourage having lots of little issues instead of a few big ones. It does get annoying for pull requests, though...