Yeah, this has come in discussion before. The consensus seemed to be that we 
should delete comments that reference issues that have been addressed in the 
doc.

- Mark

http://about.me/markrmiller

On Feb 23, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <shalinman...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I think we should delete the comments after it's content is addressed
> on the page.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:57 AM, David Smiley (@MITRE.org)
> <dsmi...@mitre.org> wrote:
>> I was just thinking about the comments feature of the Solr Reference Guide
>> (e.g. Confluence).  On one hand it's a nice feature that also allows
>> non-committers to be involved.  But, over time, couldn't it easily get out
>> of hand (as-implemented)?  That is... as a series of ever-growing comments
>> that make the page longer and longer, it seems it *could* become a bad thing
>> over time.  It isn't a problem now on the pages I've seen.  It's easy to
>> falsely make a like-kind comparison to JIRA issues but there is a big
>> difference because JIRA issues become closed!  A reference guide page will
>> likely live forever.  Perhaps my concern could be addressed in a
>> presentational way, like if you consider that MediaWiki has a separate
>> screen/page for this kind of thing; and as such I think is more manageable
>> then growing the original page forever.  I checked for a Confluence plugin
>> for that but turned up nothing obvious in Atlassian's plugin marketplace.
>> 
>> So I may have commented on a page in the past but I have no intention in
>> adding any more.  If I have a comment; I'll make it on the dev list.
>> 
>> ~ David
>> 
>> 
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