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

[Barry Scott]

On Monday, 29 March 2021 15:27:31 BST Adi Roiban wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Should I enable GitHub discussions for twisted/twisted repo?

I can keep up with the email, but you will lose me if I have to
browse to github to see what is going on.

Barry


> 
> 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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> 
> We have an archive for this  list [1]  but there is no search.
> 
> [0]
> https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/guides/using-the-graphql-api-for-discussions
> [1] https://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/
>