[pytest-dev] Using meta project for organization wide issues

[Sorin Sbarnea]

My intent was to separate organization threads from the development ones, not to deprecate the mailing list.

I do not think that an issue tracker is good for **discussions** as in open-ended subjects, or even for support. In fact using the issue tracker for user support is really bad as it make maintenance much harder.

Still, there is something new from github called discussions which is a very basic forum directly integrated into github. 

You can see it as https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule/discussions -- not very active but functional.

Discussions are in private beta, and we need to ask github to enable them. 

If anyone wants to enable it for "pytest", I could try to pull some strings. If desired, an org/repo admin should ask for it at https://github.community/t/can-one-apply-for-github-discussions-beta/121120 


> On 8 Sep 2020, at 14:54, Arseniy Antonov <arseny.antonov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sorin,
> So basically you want to move all projects related discussions from maillists to the github issues - did I get you correct?  If the answer is yes then from my perspective it's a really nice idea. 
> Also a lot of communities have #slack accounts - have you ever thought about the slack/(any other messenger) group for pytest community? 
> 
> вт, 8 сент. 2020 г. в 16:07, Sorin Sbarnea <ssbarnea at redhat.com>:
> About two weeks ago I created the https://github.com/pytest-dev/meta project with the hope of being used for tracking organization wide issues (and avoid having to pollute our main pytest project).
> 
> I seen use of "meta" on many github organizations for the same purpose, "stuff" that is unrelated to the code of a specific repository. I hope it will become popular. I do also see other benefits as used of a mailing list sets a higher barrier for people that are not yet fully dedicated (we do all know experienced the "Ahh not another ML!" sensation).
> 
> Early today I also added the first ticket, the proposal for adoption of the testinfra plugin, see https://github.com/pytest-dev/meta/issues/1 and comment there.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sorin
> 
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