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

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 12:50 -0300, Willian Rampazzo wrote:
> 
> I noticed the Discussions has #ids, just like Pull Requests and
> Issues.

Indeed, and like issues and PRs, they are using the same pool of id#s.

Indeed, discussion topics are Subscribe-able the way issues and PRs
are.  So yes, these really are just issues categorized under a
different tab.

But that doesn't solve the problem of having to poll the Discussions
page for new topics/messages,  Moreover, there doesn't even seem to be
a "all new messages/topics since I last visited" to aid (even if only
slightly) in that polling.  There is a New button, but that just seems
to be sorting option of discussions by their last message.  Not really
helpful in a "catch me up" manner.

Most of this is material for feedback to GH on their Discussions
feature though, and not anything the Avocado project can do anything
about, unless they want to engage GH on feature enhancements to the
Discussions feature.

As a complete tangent, I wonder if there is a way to move items to and
from Issues and Discussions.  It's very easy to see how somebody can
open an Issue when it's really a Discussion and where a Discussion can
become an Issue that needs a PR to fix.

>  I'm getting notifications when someone comments on a
> DIscussion,

That you must be Subscribed to.  Or get because you Watch->All Actvity
of the project.  Which would not be surprising as a Maintainer.

>  so, I think it is just a way to organize a DIscussion out
> of the Issues tab, as we were doing.

Agreed.  As discussed with Cleber, having discussions in Issues (rather
than being redirected to the ML) is an unfortunate splintering of the
community where people on the ML miss out on the Issues (that are/and
now that it's been enabled) Discussions.

Cheers,
b.

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