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[RFC] enable discussions
Problem: there are quite a few new issues filed that are not bug reports, but rather some questions or comments about runc.
Current solution: mark those with question label (thanks a lot @AkihiroSuda for doing that).
Proposed solution: enable github discussions (https://docs.github.com/en/discussions).
The benefits are:
- issues won't be polluted with questions;
- discussions is they don't have opened/closed state, so they don't have to be closed;
The only caveat I can think of is:
- we'll have yet another thing to maintain / moderate.
All in all, I think it makes sense, but let's see what other @opencontainers/runc-maintainers think.
SGTM, but it's slightly disappointing that questions cannot be "closed".. What can we do with obviously off-topic questions?
I would suggest to at least add templates for issues (and pull requests), explaining that the issue tracker is for bug-reports and feature requests, and point users to (e.g.) slack for "questions".
After that, (off-topic) questions can be closed. Having the "discussions" available probably won't really reduce maintenance, but may add more (to moderate).
I do like discussions as they are indexable via Google vs Slack :/
So it may reduce maintenance given that things may be more discoverable?
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 5:25 AM Sebastiaan van Stijn < [email protected]> wrote:
I would suggest to at least add templates for issues (and pull requests), explaining that the issue tracker is for bug-reports and feature requests, and point users to (e.g.) slack for "questions".
After that, (off-topic) questions can be closed. Having the "discussions" available probably won't really reduce maintenance, but may add more (to moderate).
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I would suggest to at least add templates for issues (and pull requests)
I am against very heavy templates. A comment saying something like "use discussions () to ask questions" would be beneficial (once we have discussions). Merely saying "this is not a place to ask questions" (without any info about how/where to ask questions) is kinda hostile to the users.
After that, (off-topic) questions can be closed
Yet better, converted to discussions!
it's slightly disappointing that questions cannot be "closed".. What can we do with obviously off-topic questions?
I'm not sure what kind of power moderators have over discussions, but I guess there is (or will be) a way to "freeze" a topic in some way, as it's pretty standard feature of all the forum/discussion software.
In view of recent issues (https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aquestion) that are actually support questions, may I raise @opencontainers/runc-maintainers attention to this RFC?
I have enabled "Discussions", and maintainers can convert any issue which is actually a question to a discussion. Search for "Convert to discussion" text on the page, the link is at the very bottom of right column.