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We’re opening the new GitHub Discussions feature for OSL to see if it's a useful addition.
How are discussions different from issues?
We view issues as the place to report something highly likely to be a bug (hopefully reported with very complete instructions for how to reproduce it), or a specific request for an enhancement to be put on the development schedule. Put another way, an Issue is a description of a thing that can be fixed with an appropriate Pull Request.
We really don't think Issues are the right place to ask simple "how do I do this?" questions.
How are discussions different from the email list?
That's a great question! We don't know, and that's what we're trying to figure out.
Maybe they are exactly the same and we will decide we want either email or discussions, but not have the burden of both. (My bias is toward email for this project, because we have a 10 year archive of those, and it's probably impossible to move that history into the discussions. Perhaps for a new project with no history, it's just as good to use discussions only.)
Discussions may be a helpful place for beginners to post questions and have them answered (and to casually browse prior questions) without the extra step of searching for, and subscribing to, the email list.
Discussions may be preferred in cases where you want easy cross-referencing between them, issues, and PRs.
Discussions allow reactions (and thus effectively upvoting) in ways that the email list does not. There's no way to mark an archived email after the fact as being especially important or housing the best answer to a common problem.
So let's try it a bit and evaluate how we like it.
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👋 Welcome!
We’re opening the new GitHub Discussions feature for OSL to see if it's a useful addition.
How are discussions different from issues?
We view issues as the place to report something highly likely to be a bug (hopefully reported with very complete instructions for how to reproduce it), or a specific request for an enhancement to be put on the development schedule. Put another way, an Issue is a description of a thing that can be fixed with an appropriate Pull Request.
We really don't think Issues are the right place to ask simple "how do I do this?" questions.
How are discussions different from the email list?
That's a great question! We don't know, and that's what we're trying to figure out.
Maybe they are exactly the same and we will decide we want either email or discussions, but not have the burden of both. (My bias is toward email for this project, because we have a 10 year archive of those, and it's probably impossible to move that history into the discussions. Perhaps for a new project with no history, it's just as good to use discussions only.)
Discussions may be a helpful place for beginners to post questions and have them answered (and to casually browse prior questions) without the extra step of searching for, and subscribing to, the email list.
Discussions may be preferred in cases where you want easy cross-referencing between them, issues, and PRs.
Discussions allow reactions (and thus effectively upvoting) in ways that the email list does not. There's no way to mark an archived email after the fact as being especially important or housing the best answer to a common problem.
So let's try it a bit and evaluate how we like it.
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