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

[Willian Rampazzo]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:44 PM Cleber Rosa <crosa at redhat.com> wrote:
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> ----- 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)
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> > On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 11:37 -0300, Willian Rampazzo wrote:
> > > Hello, Avocado community,
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> > Hello Willian
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> > > We have enabled Discussions on Avocado Framework GitHub Project. Feel
> > > free
> > > to ask questions, add suggestions, or comment on an open discussion!
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> > 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?
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> Hi Brian,
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> 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.
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> > 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?
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> > I hope the discussion that has historically happened on this list
> > doesn't migrate to such an interface.
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> > Cheers,
> > b.
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> 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.

I noticed the Discussions has #ids, just like Pull Requests and
Issues. I'm getting notifications when someone comments on a
DIscussion, so, I think it is just a way to organize a DIscussion out
of the Issues tab, as we were doing.

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> And thanks for raising those valid concerns.
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> Cheers,
> - Cleber.
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