Hi,

Should I enable GitHub discussions for twisted/twisted repo?

Advantages:

* it's like email but I think that it's easier to include/exclude people interested in the discussion

* If an external person / one time contributor wants to participate in a discussion, subscribing to the whole maillinglist is no longer required

* Should be easier to find the "right answer" inside a discussion.

* You can search the twisted/twisted repo from one place (GitHub top left search bar) and also find discussion for that topic.

* Might help with keeping the comments inside the PR focused on the code review as it should be easier to start a discussion

Disadvantages

* Depend even more on GitHub / MS.. but I hope that even if

* Yet another communication channel for the Twisted community. We already have

  * this mailinglist

  * the web mailinglist

  * IRC

  * stack overflow

  * GitHub PRs

We already depende a lot on Github for git hosting, code review, automated tests, deployment, pypy publishing.

I don't know if the discussion feature will make much of a difference.

There is an API [0] that ctwisted-pythontwisted-pythonan be used to export the data if needed or import mailman data.

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What do you think?

Yes... no... maybe...stupid idea :)

Thanks

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