Thanks Sorin for bringing this up.

I've posted a request to enable the Discussions feature for
pytest-dev/pytest:
https://github.community/t/can-one-apply-for-github-discussions-beta/121120/162?u=nicoddemus

Cheers,
Bruno.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:08 AM Sorin Sbarnea <ssbar...@redhat.com> wrote:

> My intent was to separate organization threads from the development ones,
> not to deprecate the mailing list.
>
> I do not think that an issue tracker is good for **discussions** as in
> open-ended subjects, or even for support. In fact using the issue tracker
> for user support is really bad as it make maintenance much harder.
>
> Still, there is something new from github called discussions which is a
> very basic forum directly integrated into github.
>
> You can see it as
> https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule/discussions -- not very
> active but functional.
>
> Discussions are in private beta, and we need to ask github to enable them.
>
> If anyone wants to enable it for "pytest", I could try to pull some
> strings. If desired, an org/repo admin should ask for it at
> https://github.community/t/can-one-apply-for-github-discussions-beta/121120
>
>
> > On 8 Sep 2020, at 14:54, Arseniy Antonov <arseny.anto...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Sorin,
> > So basically you want to move all projects related discussions from
> maillists to the github issues - did I get you correct?  If the answer is
> yes then from my perspective it's a really nice idea.
> > Also a lot of communities have #slack accounts - have you ever thought
> about the slack/(any other messenger) group for pytest community?
> >
> > вт, 8 сент. 2020 г. в 16:07, Sorin Sbarnea <ssbar...@redhat.com>:
> > About two weeks ago I created the https://github.com/pytest-dev/meta
> project with the hope of being used for tracking organization wide issues
> (and avoid having to pollute our main pytest project).
> >
> > I seen use of "meta" on many github organizations for the same purpose,
> "stuff" that is unrelated to the code of a specific repository. I hope it
> will become popular. I do also see other benefits as used of a mailing list
> sets a higher barrier for people that are not yet fully dedicated (we do
> all know experienced the "Ahh not another ML!" sensation).
> >
> > Early today I also added the first ticket, the proposal for adoption of
> the testinfra plugin, see https://github.com/pytest-dev/meta/issues/1 and
> comment there.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sorin
> >
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