GitHub Discussions Beta

#1

Post by atymic » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 1:01 AM UTC

Re: GitHub Discussions Beta

#2

Post by atymic » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 1:03 AM UTC

I've been waiting for something similar to this for a long time. There's a lot of questions & topical discussion that don't fit well into issue.

I wasn't able to find GitHub page covering this feature, so the link to to Next.js's repo discussions.

Re: GitHub Discussions Beta

#3

Post by saagarjha » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 3:18 AM UTC

Interesting. Will this be rolling out to other repositories at some point to beta-test?

Re: GitHub Discussions Beta

#4

Post by qqii » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 3:30 AM UTC

I'd assume that this has a similar scope to team discussions[0] released a few years ago. At the moment most larger projects have communities elsewhere, and smaller projects use issues for this king of discussion.

Compared to other community forums it's distinguishing feature will be referencing commits and issues. I'd be interested to see how many projects actually use this feature.

[0]: https://github.blog/2017-11-20-introducing-team-discussions/

Re: GitHub Discussions Beta

#5

Post by mmahemoff » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 3:32 AM UTC

Superb. Many open source projects still bounce you to Google Groups for discussion, which is archaic at this point. Even requires Google login just to read threads.

Also it's often unclear what the policy is on raising questions in the issues tracker (smaller projects are usually fine with it, bigger projects get overwhelmed and don't want it). This will make it a much nicer separation for everyone and keep the issues tracker minimal.

Re: GitHub Discussions Beta

#6

Post by kyrra » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 3:36 AM UTC

mmahemoff wrote: post #5

Superb. Many open source projects still bounce you to Google Groups for discussion, which is archaic at this point. Even requires Google login just to read threads. Also it's often unclear what the policy is on raising questions in the issues tracker (smaller projects are usually fine with it, bigger projects get overwhelmed and don't want it). This will make it a much nicer separation for everyone and keep the issue…

I can read Google groups just fine in incognito mode.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/golang-nuts

It's a matter of what the settings are on the group (the group admins get to decide visibility settings).

Re: GitHub Discussions Beta

#7

Post by moltar » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 3:36 AM UTC

Oh love it! I’m always unsure if it’s ok to ask a question via issues.

Re: GitHub Discussions Beta

#8

Post by atymic » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 3:40 AM UTC

qqii wrote: post #4

I'd assume that this has a similar scope to team discussions[0] released a few years ago. At the moment most larger projects have communities elsewhere, and smaller projects use issues for this king of discussion. Compared to other community forums it's distinguishing feature will be referencing commits and issues. I'd be interested to see how many projects actually use this feature. [0]: https://github.blog/2017-11-…

Interesting, having worked with github orgs for since this was released, I never actually knew this existed. It actually look pretty cool, sad that it didn't get much traction.

Re: GitHub Discussions Beta

#9

Post by tamalsaha001 » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 3:42 AM UTC

So, how do I join discussions beta?

Re: GitHub Discussions Beta

#10

Post by saagarjha » Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 3:43 AM UTC

mmahemoff wrote: post #5

Superb. Many open source projects still bounce you to Google Groups for discussion, which is archaic at this point. Even requires Google login just to read threads. Also it's often unclear what the policy is on raising questions in the issues tracker (smaller projects are usually fine with it, bigger projects get overwhelmed and don't want it). This will make it a much nicer separation for everyone and keep the issue…

One thing nice about Google Groups is that you can largely use it to its fullest extent from email.