This would be great! The more things we can get out of Slack and into a public place thats easier to keep track of (Slack swallows our history frequently) the better!
+1 On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:36 AM Bence Orlai <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > it seems to me that GH Discussions nicely fills a place between Slack > (realtime collaboration), emails (longer going threads) and GH issues > (conversation around a specific, ... well... issue) > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 1:56 AM yongjie zhao <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:22 PM Daniel Gaspar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > +1 > > > > > > On 2020/12/13 06:31:39, 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> > > > > > >
