+1. At 409 open Issues currently, being able to gradually move any issues that 
are more suitable for Discussions can really help improve signal to noise ratio 
and open up a better area for more casual discussion than what the mailing list 
offers.

VIlle

> On 14. Dec 2020, at 6.25, Krist Wongsuphasawat <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> +1 The fewer tools/places to jump between sound like an improvement to me.
> Github is already the center of most activities in Superset.
> 
> -Krist
> 
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:18 AM Junlin Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> +1
>> 
>> -junlin
>> 
>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 5:45 PM Maxime Beauchemin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> +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>
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> *Krist Wongsuphasawat, PhD*
> http://kristw.yellowpigz.com

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