[Avocado-devel] Fwd: [avocado-framework/avocado] Welcome to avocado Discussions! (#4356)

[Cleber Rosa]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
> To: avocado-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 9:55:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Avocado-devel] Fwd: [avocado-framework/avocado] Welcome to avocado Discussions! (#4356)
> 
> On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 11:37 -0300, Willian Rampazzo wrote:
> > Hello, Avocado community,
> 
> Hello Willian
> 
> > We have enabled Discussions on Avocado Framework GitHub Project. Feel
> > free
> > to ask questions, add suggestions, or comment on an open discussion!
> 
> How does that relate to this list?  Are they intended for different
> purposes or will the overlap, partially or completely?  Or will
> Discussions eventually replace this list?
> 

Hi Brian,

We enabled GitHub "Discussions" in an experimental way (the feature itself
is also a preview), and I myself have some of the same questions you have.
The short answer is that, we were using GitHub "Issues" when we were not
even sure we had an issue, that is, we wanted to discuss something.  Then
it felt natural to move to the "Discussions" feature.  

> Can we have discussions messages e-mailed to us, or is this more like a
> "Forum" type of interaction where one has to just keep checking back at
> the website periodically in case there is new topics?
> 
> FWIW, I dislike the latter.  It's a polling interface rather than an
> interrupt driven one.  It doesn't scale.  Imagine having 100 of the
> same type of interface (i.e. Forums) that you have to go check each
> day, just in case there is a new topic you are interested in.  You
> spend half your day just going to web sites, "just in case" there is
> something new.
> 

I agree that there's an overlap with the mailing list. For those of us
that would open the GitHub web UI every day, it's an inconvenience but
not a major hurdle.  But, the polling aspect is *very bad* for the wider
community.

> I hope the discussion that has historically happened on this list
> doesn't migrate to such an interface.
> 
> Cheers,
> b.
> 
> 

Beraldo will investigate if there's an email integration mechanism.  With
issues, you can get notified and reply via email and GitHub will post your
answer to the issue.  So, we're hoping that this will also be possible with
discussions.

And thanks for raising those valid concerns.

Cheers,
- Cleber.