It looks to me like adopting github for a centralized workflow that involves PRs, issues, discussions and all of this stuff.
KISS principle! Also, potential contributors tend to look on discussion boards and sadly discussion lists are a bit naive :/ So, +1 on that. Alessio On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 9:06 PM Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2020-03-15 9:36, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2020, at 14:35, Naomi Slater wrote: > >> apparently GitHub has discussions now. it's still in beta, but you can > >> specifically request it if you want it if you contact support, I think > >> > >> e.g., https://github.com/zeit/next.js/discussions > >> <https://github.com/zeit/next.js/discussions> > > > > interesting. > > > >> I'm interested to know what we think about this and how this > >> might/could fit into our plans for user support, discussion, etc. > > Given that we already have email integration with GitHub, this will > probably be easier to get through the ASF bureaucracy than something > brand new. > > I'm willing to take this through Infra if people agree to it. It doesn't > look like there are any separate "boards" or tags yet, so the proposal > would likely be that discussions there would get emailed onto user@. The > hard part will be getting replies to the thread on user@ to go back into > the discussion on GH; we might be able to get an "asf-bot" to do this > for us. > > I also looked at Infra's JIRA database, and no one has put in this > request there yet. So, we'd be the first, with all the difficulties that > entails. > > Can I get an informal "vote" on this approach and go-ahead? Since it's > informal, anyone is encouraged to respond. > > -Joan "adopt, adapt, improve" Touzet >
