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<p class="MsoNormal">In that vein, I’ve opened an issue to seed discussion on one particular topic: “32-big glyph IDs: what and why”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat/issues/10">https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat/issues/10</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Dave Crossland <dcrossland@google.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 16, 2020 4:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Peter Constable <pgcon6@msn.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com>; mpeg-otspec <mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [MPEG-OTSPEC] Introducing breaking changes into the spec (was: RE: [EXTERNAL] Proposal to deprecate derived search values)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 1:30 PM Peter Constable <<a href="mailto:pgcon6@msn.com">pgcon6@msn.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">My main concern for this email list has been that discussion on technical issues in relation to potential new formats could quickly run into a hundred different areas and rabbit
holes, and could quickly become very randomizing. And I don’t think that’s good because (i) some could be chased away by volume of traffic they’re not interested in, (ii) it would be harder someone to focus on any of those discussions if they _<i>are</i>_
interested, and (iii) in the meantime it would make it harder to focus on any work relevant to the _<i>current</i>_ OFF project.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dave has suggested a github issues repo; I haven’t closely followed discussion between him and you on that, but perhaps that’s an idea to consider.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">100%, and this isn't a hypothetical as Peter has very politely posed it! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Liang already stated he is tired of this list, as any email list would be tiring.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think email lists are incapable of managing the clear open/closed status of any thread of discussion, and lack tags, and the special kind of tag called a milestone, which comes with a few associated properties - like completion date,
stack rank, and that an issue can only have one milestone tag. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, if someone is only interested in discussing 1.8.x updates, they can just look at the 1.8.x milestones' lists of issues (discussion threads.) <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'd like to start directing all meaningful discussion away from this list to the mpeggroup GitHub repo. Does anyone object to this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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