I think this is a good idea. A possible reason for hesitation is that it provides us yet another stream that requires maintainer attention. But it also occurs to me that a new stream of information on GitHub may be significantly more accessible than a stream on a mailing list or third-party website (SO, Zulip) so it may be easier for non-maintainers to help.
GitHub Discussions also offers categories and polls which may be interesting. On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM Sutou Kouhei <k...@clear-code.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > It seems that we can enable GitHub Discussions by .asf.yaml: > > https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-asfyaml/blob/main/README.md#repository-features > > Do we want to enable GitHub Discussions for apache/arrow? > We can use GitHub Discussions for user support like > u...@arrow.apache.org. > > See also: > "[DISCUSS] Deprecate user@ in favor for github issues/discussions" > https://lists.apache.org/thread/1m2f7lzcxfplzgjhvsrv66k0d2b4ws87 > > FYI: apache/arrow-rs uses GitHub Discussions: > * https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/discussions > * "[Rust] Enable GitHub discussions for Rust projects?" > https://lists.apache.org/thread/o8d50n8fv989knxcqvnhosbg4fnzdlf8 > > > Thanks, > -- > kou
