Woh! This is huuuge! Thanks for making this happen :-) Alessio
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Joan Touzet <jo...@atypical.net> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra, Apache > CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository: > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions > > Right now, we're beta testing this (in conjunction with MS/GitHub and > the ASF) as a new user support channel. You may have already seen us > move a few Issues over to Discussions, where they now belong. > > We're hoping that this gives people a friendlier way to build community > around CouchDB, one that doesn't require mailing list membership or > joining a possibly-intimidating Slack channel. Please feel free to use > the Discussions to ask for help with CouchDB, share ideas, show us what > you've done with CouchDB, offer thanks to the team, or post things you > learned and want to share with others. > > One key feature is that we hope to give more recognition and affordance > to our non-committer contributors through the Discussions platform. Stay > tuned for more info. > > As more Discussions features become available, we'll make use of them to > customize our space there, including linking to our project > "bylaws"/rules and code of conduct. > > Two caveats: Right now, there is no webhook availability for > Discussions, which means we can't mirror activity there to our user@ > mailing lists. We've been told this will arrive around the time > Discussions leaves private beta. > > The other: Please remember that all discussion of project *direction* > and *decision making* must occur on the dev@ mailing list. It's fine to > link to threads in Discussions to help start the decision making > process, just the same as we do with Slack, Stack Overflow, etc. today. > > I hope this comes as welcome news to everyone. I'm pretty excited about > it! Special thanks to Jan Lehnardt, who helped get this enabled for us, > and Garren Smith, who started the discussion months ago about moving out > of the twentieth century for community building. > > -Joan "I'm a woman. I can change. If I have to. I guess." Touzet >
