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

[Adi Roiban]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 23:06, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 29, 2021, at 7:27 AM, Adi Roiban <adi at roiban.ro> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Should I enable GitHub discussions for twisted/twisted repo?
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> Rather than phrasing this in terms of advantages & disadvantages, I think
> it might be more fruitful to talk about what *problem* we would
> ostensibly be trying to solve by using it.  Right now I don't think the
> list is high-traffic enough that the big advantage (you can have a
> discussion without blasting out a message to too many people) would really
> solve any issues we're currently having.
>
> Personally I am -0 because I don't think that Github's structure for
> notifications are particularly conducive to an Inbox Zero style approach,
> i.e. one where everyone involved with he project knows where to go check
> for things that they might want to pay attention to.  The mailing list
> makes this very straightforward; you just check your email, which you're
> probably doing anyway.
>
> Github does have *some* notion of "inboxes", i.e.
> https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pulls/review-requested/@me could
> probably replace https://twisted.reviews, but even though I am a person
> who thinks *way too much* about inboxes
> <https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/04/email-isnt-the-problem.html>, I
> find https://github.com/notifications difficult to approach.  If we were
> going to turn it on we should probably have a recommended way to check in
> on messages for contributors.
>
>
Thanks for the feedback. That is ok. There is no need to use GitHub
Discussions.

Thanks for the nice read about inboxes :)

-- 
Adi Roiban
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