Something-something indirection. You’re just saying that messages (or: what and why things happened to the code) should be moved out of the repository and into

Something-something indirection. You’re just saying that messages (or: what and why things happened to the code) should be moved out of the repository and into the issue tracker. This is like me saying that wiki articles aren’t important… because we don’t use a wiki for documentation and just commit the docs in the repository. Yeah, sure. But most of your interlocutors were probably more concerned with the fact that things needed to be documented, somehow.