I am also +1 on the idea of enabling discussions on github. I personally don't think this needs a formal vote of PMC members, but rather that Apache Infra wants to make sure the topic was discussed in the community prior to enabling the feature.
Thank you Andy for bringing this up, Andrew On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 9:39 AM Gavin Ray <ray.gavi...@gmail.com> wrote: > How does voting on ASF mailing lists work? I assume random people don't get > votes. > If so, consider this email an informal voice of support -- otherwise +1 > from me =) > > On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 11:40 AM Matthew Turner < > matthew.m.tur...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > > +1 on enabling GitHub discussions for both arrow-rs and datafusion. I > > think there is a lot of value in distinguishing actual "issues" with > > questions / conversations. I believe this would also complement the > > datafusion site which doesn't have any type of forum for conversations. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andy Grove <andygrov...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 11:31 AM > > To: dev <dev@arrow.apache.org> > > Subject: [Rust] Enable GitHub discussions for Rust projects? > > > > We have a request [1] to enable GitHub discussions for DataFusion. > > Personally, I am in favor of doing this for DataFusion as well as > arrow-rs. > > We need to file an infra ticket to get this enabled and have to provide a > > link to "consensus discussion thread" [2] so I would like to gather > > opinions here prior to hopefully initiating a vote on this. > > > > I am in favor of keeping discussions separate from issues because: > > > > 1. I believe that it makes It is less intimidating for users to ask > > questions 2. It is easier for part-time contributors to keep an eye on > > discussions than to monitor the issues which are likely always going to > be > > higher volume > > > > Please let me know your thoughts. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andy. > > > > > > [1] > > > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fapache%2Farrow-datafusion%2Fissues%2F2350&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0f650a1d3a3c43492b2808da2de31d62%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637872750725583461%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=A8Xqspxnay1qSsC0s3hxBWGtwigGJSMdSKd9jBbnurU%3D&reserved=0 > > [2] > > > > > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcwiki.apache.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FINFRA%2FGit%2B-%2B.asf.yaml%2Bfeatures%23Git.asf.yamlfeatures-GitHubDiscussions&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0f650a1d3a3c43492b2808da2de31d62%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637872750725583461%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dF7G3KPa%2BuJDIEnN2t%2F%2BCUhG30Ed4sOUuue8iwlMWk4%3D&reserved=0 > > >
