Re: controlling how long before archiving?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: felix.lechner@lease-up.com,  help-debbugs@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii
>  <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:07:21 +0100
> 
> Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> writes:
> 
> Hi Felix and Karl,
> 
> >     There was no consensus whether I could fork the Debbugs currently
> >     deployed for GNU, or whether I should upgrade to the latest Debbugs
> >     upstream version.
> >     ... We effectively already do [the fork] with 170 commits on top
> >     of upstream.
> >
> > It's not my call, but it seems to me that if you'd rather work forward
> > from the fork instead of the latest with its additional module
> > requirements ... why not? Sounds sensible to me. As long as the default
> > behavior doesn't change, including for Michael and Emacs, it shouldn't
> > cause problems?
> 
> When Felix shows his planned roadmap, we shall contact the Emacs
> maintainers for discussion. I have added Eli and Stefan in Cc, in order
> to make them aware of it.

What is the issue being discussed here.  The Subject seems to say
something, but the text in the body doesn't mention that.  What are
the reasons for us to fork debbugs?