discussion tab (was [Engine-devel] API design and plan)

[Itamar Heim]

moving discussion to infra list - is there a way to disable the 
discussion tabs on the wikis if people prefer mailing lists to discuss 
item to avoid confusing people?

On 12/13/2011 03:02 PM, Jon Choate wrote:
....

>>>> Is there a bias towards using the mailing list and against the
>>>> discussion tab on the wiki page when discussing wiki pages? Just
>>>> want to
>>>> know. I'm used to commenting on wikis on the discussion page.
>>>
>>> mailing list - shouldn't be.
>>> wiki - may be lost on the larger audience - I think discussing on
>>> the
>>> mailing list makes more sense since many don't subscribe to the
>>> wiki
>>> pages after their first review from when it was published.
>>
>> No offense, but the only thing which is more broken than email for
>> discussing such things is a wiki discussion (mailing list at least
>> pushes changes by default. has clients to manage replies by threads,
>> responses can be sent concurrently etc).
>>
> No offense taken, different tools work better for different groups of people. If we do not want to use the discussion tabs, is there a way to get rid of them so we don't have people posting comments there?