Noticed an exchange on twitter today about someone commenting about comments made on a very old GitHub ticket that was closed over a year ago. Just wanted to say that comments on old tickets are going to get lost and we can’t read them all. I really wish GitHub provided a way to disable comments on old tickets completely (as many trackers do), but they do not.
Anyway, if you guys ever have any concerns about something, ask here or ansible-devel.
Also, if a ticket has a very low number (this was a 2000-something and was at least 3000 tickets old) it does not neccessarily mean the decision that was made then is 100% right now.
I see folks talking about things I said when Ansible was a 1-man show that don’t neccessarily apply now (bandwidth then was short, the project was young, and some things we are tackling now we couldn’t have ever done then), and it’s not like I have any capacity to go back and comment on every single past decision either 
If you encounter replies on an old GitHub ticket you are reading, I’d suggest you encourage folks to move discussion to the mailing list, where we can talk about it more openly, and in a wider forum.
Thanks!