Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Po Lu]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> In my message, I did say that quoting is a good practice in Github as
> well.
>
>     That's not about Github. That's about discussion conventions. At least
>     some repositories make use of message quoting in the messages to clarify
>     what each message is replying to. This tends to happen in more complex
>     issue discussions with multiple points being discussed.
>
> I am not sure what you are trying to argue about. My statement was
> referring to Github discussions that follow good practices.
>
> Github or mailing list - bad messaging practices make things unreadable.
> It is not about Github, it is about the community practices.

Does Github offer to quote the message you are replying to prior to the
reply being sent?  If not, then I think it is fair game to claim that is
not Github convention, particularly inasmuch as I seldom witness Github
issue threads where quoting is the rule rather than the exception.