> On 10. Jun 2020, at 00:36, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Piotr,
>
> We learned of the feature based on friends who are testing the feature in
> private beta, in places like the JavaScript React community:
>
> https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions
>
> That page shows some of the upcoming features in Discussions, currently hard
> coded for that community.
>
> You'll have to talk to ASF Infrastructure if you want to experiment with this
> feature. Open a JIRA ticket with them; they are the gatekeepers.
You *also* need a contact on the GitHub side afaict. I’m happy to make an
introduction.
Best
Jan
—
>
> -Joan "now in the correct Channel" Touzet
>
> On 2020-06-09 5:22 p.m., Piotr Zarzycki wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>> I'm PMC in a different Apache project and I was wondering - what required
>> actually to switch ON Discussion on GH? How idea started?
>> Thanks,
>> Piotr
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 10:48 PM Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>> Woh! This is huuuge!
>>> Thanks for making this happen :-)
>>>
>>> Alessio
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Joan Touzet <[email protected]> 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
>>>>
>>>
