[Twisted-Python] Enable and use GitHub Discussions for twisted/twisted

[Adi Roiban]

Hi,

Should I enable GitHub discussions for twisted/twisted repo?

Advantages:

* it's like email but I think that it's easier to include/exclude people
interested in the discussion
* If an external person / one time contributor wants to participate in a
discussion, subscribing to the whole maillinglist is no longer required
* Should be easier to find the "right answer" inside a discussion.
* You can search the twisted/twisted repo from one place (GitHub top left
search bar) and also find discussion for that topic.
* Might help with keeping the comments inside the PR focused on the code
review as it should be easier to start a discussion

Disadvantages

* Depend even more on GitHub / MS.. but I hope that even if
* Yet another communication channel for the Twisted community. We already
have
  * this mailinglist
  * the web mailinglist
  * IRC
  * stack overflow
  * GitHub PRs

We already depende a lot on Github for git hosting, code review, automated
tests, deployment, pypy publishing.
I don't know if the discussion feature will make much of a difference.

There is an API [0] that ctwisted-pythontwisted-pythonan be used to export
the data if needed or import mailman data.

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What do you think?

Yes... no... maybe...stupid idea :)

Thanks
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[0]
https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/guides/using-the-graphql-api-for-discussions
[1] https://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/
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Adi Roiban
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