+1 even if just to [DISCUSS] SIPs in place of using issues as a starting point. Personally I much prefer this to mailing list because it offers:
- subscribe/unsubscribe on a per-discussion basis (manage signal/noise ratio) - reactions - rich integration with issues/PRs, code - markdown support for rich formatting - searchability, categorization (labels, actors, time range, ...) - decent SEO (guessing it'll work better than ponymail) - analytics through the REST API sync - ... Max On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:31 PM Jesse Yang <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Superset community, > > During the last Superset meetup, we had a discussion on GitHub Discussions > < > https://github.blog/2020-05-06-new-from-satellite-2020-github-codespaces-github-discussions-securing-code-in-private-repositories-and-more/>. > This is a feature GitHub announced in May which has been in open beta for > the last couple of months. Many open source projects have since adopted it > (including some apache projects, Airflow < > https://github.com/apache/airflow/discussions>, Couchdb < > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions>, MXNet < > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/discussions>, and many others > such as Next.js <https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions>, Gatsby < > https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/discussions> and Strapi < > https://github.com/strapi/strapi/discussions>). > > With Github Discussions, users can start casual conversations, ask > questions and get help from the community in a discussion board, similar to > what they are now able to do with Slack < > https://apache-superset.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-g8lpruog-HeqpgYrwdfrD5OYhlU7hPQ#/>, > StackOverflow < > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/superset+apache-superset>, or > this mailing list. > > The main difference is that Discussions is more tightly integrated with > the GitHub repo and a developer's everyday workflow therefore more > accessible and discoverable. It has many useful features such as > categories, upvotes and indented thread view, which all makes organizing > and discovering conversations easier. By moving casual conversations to a > new forum, it also frees up GitHub Issues for actual TODOs and bug reports > so that committers can track work progress more efficiently. > > This email is a call for discussion/vote on whether we should enable this > feature for Superset. Note that per Apache policy, such forum "can only be > used for user help issues, all code-related discussions and project > management activities (will still) be reflected to an ASF mailing list" > [1]. During the meetup, someone also raised the concern that this new venue > of conversations may split committer attention and lead to slower > responses. But one may argue since developers already use GitHub everyday, > the attention may not split that much anyway. Other than that, I personally > don't see any major downside. > > Please feel free to voice your support or concerns one way or another. > > > Thanks, > Jesse > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20772 < > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20772>
