Hey Rohit,

The argument applies, indeed, but it's too late for those... Isn't it? 



On 5 December 2023 14:23:53 GMT, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote:
>Lucian, all,
>
>Your argument pretty would also apply to also our current use of Github issues 
>and pull requests (and milestones, CI/github actions etc), which have become 
>are daily drivers.
>
>I had another round of checks - from an ASF/mailing lists point of view, in 
>case Github goes the wrong path, all such discussions will still be available 
>on users@ ML (archive) and possibly a migration path would be determined by 
>the ASF infra (such as to Gitlab etc).
>
>
>Regards.
>
>________________________________
>From: Nux <n...@li.nux.ro>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 15:40
>To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
>Cc: Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>
>Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Adopting Github Discusssions Users Forum
>
>Personally I'm against that, as it will dilute the community and once
>the mailing lists will get inactive they'll stay that way.
>
>Also github/discussions is a proprietary platform at Microsoft's whim, I
>think this goes against the spirit of the project as free software.
>
>That said, I'll be "voting" -0, don't want to get in the way of
>"progress".
>
>On 2023-11-28 09:28, Rohit Yadav wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> It's been a while since I had last proposed adopting and trying the
>> Github Discussions feature for our users community. Since then, the ASF
>> infra seems to have enabled integration and allowing Discussions
>> integrated with mailing lists:
>> https://github.com/search?q=.asf.yaml+discussions&type=code
>>
>> Following discussions with both technical and non-technical users from
>> the CCC, I believe we should try this out and use it for users to
>> discuss their ideas, questions, and problems, all that traditionally
>> has happened on the users@ ML; while been integrating such discussions
>> on the users@ ML. The Discussions platform could be used by developers
>> too to get feedback from users.
>>
>> That said, we MUST continue to use our mailing lists for any project
>> governance related matters such as releases related discussions,
>> releases voting, and any form of consensus and decision making.
>>
>> I've proposed a PR for this here where the discussions feature is tied
>> to users@ ML:
>> https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/8274/files
>>
>> Thoughts and feedback?
>>
>>
>> Regards.
>
> 
>

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