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Posted to dev@couchdb.apache.org by Joan Touzet <jo...@atypical.net> on 2020/06/09 18:14:04 UTC
Announcing GitHub Discussions for Apache CouchDB [Beta]
Hi everyone,
Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra, Apache
CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions
Right now, we're beta testing this (in conjunction with MS/GitHub and
the ASF) as a new user support channel. You may have already seen us
move a few Issues over to Discussions, where they now belong.
We're hoping that this gives people a friendlier way to build community
around CouchDB, one that doesn't require mailing list membership or
joining a possibly-intimidating Slack channel. Please feel free to use
the Discussions to ask for help with CouchDB, share ideas, show us what
you've done with CouchDB, offer thanks to the team, or post things you
learned and want to share with others.
One key feature is that we hope to give more recognition and affordance
to our non-committer contributors through the Discussions platform. Stay
tuned for more info.
As more Discussions features become available, we'll make use of them to
customize our space there, including linking to our project
"bylaws"/rules and code of conduct.
Two caveats: Right now, there is no webhook availability for
Discussions, which means we can't mirror activity there to our user@
mailing lists. We've been told this will arrive around the time
Discussions leaves private beta.
The other: Please remember that all discussion of project *direction*
and *decision making* must occur on the dev@ mailing list. It's fine to
link to threads in Discussions to help start the decision making
process, just the same as we do with Slack, Stack Overflow, etc. today.
I hope this comes as welcome news to everyone. I'm pretty excited about
it! Special thanks to Jan Lehnardt, who helped get this enabled for us,
and Garren Smith, who started the discussion months ago about moving out
of the twentieth century for community building.
-Joan "I'm a woman. I can change. If I have to. I guess." Touzet
Re: Announcing GitHub Discussions for Apache CouchDB [Beta]
Posted by Garren Smith <ga...@apache.org>.
Hi Joan,
This is awesome. Thank you for setting it up.
Cheers
Garren
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 12:38 PM Johs Ensby <jo...@b2w.com> wrote:
> Great news for the user community
> Farewell mailing list, thanks for the ride so far.
> J
>
> > On 10 Jun 2020, at 10:20, Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >>>>> Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra,
> Apache
> >>>>> CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions
>
>
>
Re: Announcing GitHub Discussions for Apache CouchDB [Beta]
Posted by Johs Ensby <jo...@b2w.com>.
Great news for the user community
Farewell mailing list, thanks for the ride so far.
J
> On 10 Jun 2020, at 10:20, Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>>>>> Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra, Apache
>>>>> CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions
Re: Announcing GitHub Discussions for Apache CouchDB [Beta]
Posted by Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org>.
> On 10. Jun 2020, at 00:36, Joan Touzet <wo...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Piotr,
>
> We learned of the feature based on friends who are testing the feature in private beta, in places like the JavaScript React community:
>
> https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions
>
> That page shows some of the upcoming features in Discussions, currently hard coded for that community.
>
> You'll have to talk to ASF Infrastructure if you want to experiment with this feature. Open a JIRA ticket with them; they are the gatekeepers.
You *also* need a contact on the GitHub side afaict. I’m happy to make an introduction.
Best
Jan
—
>
> -Joan "now in the correct Channel" Touzet
>
> On 2020-06-09 5:22 p.m., Piotr Zarzycki wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>> I'm PMC in a different Apache project and I was wondering - what required
>> actually to switch ON Discussion on GH? How idea started?
>> Thanks,
>> Piotr
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 10:48 PM Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana <
>> dottorblaster@apache.org> wrote:
>>> Woh! This is huuuge!
>>> Thanks for making this happen :-)
>>>
>>> Alessio
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Joan Touzet <jo...@atypical.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra, Apache
>>>> CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions
>>>>
>>>> Right now, we're beta testing this (in conjunction with MS/GitHub and
>>>> the ASF) as a new user support channel. You may have already seen us
>>>> move a few Issues over to Discussions, where they now belong.
>>>>
>>>> We're hoping that this gives people a friendlier way to build community
>>>> around CouchDB, one that doesn't require mailing list membership or
>>>> joining a possibly-intimidating Slack channel. Please feel free to use
>>>> the Discussions to ask for help with CouchDB, share ideas, show us what
>>>> you've done with CouchDB, offer thanks to the team, or post things you
>>>> learned and want to share with others.
>>>>
>>>> One key feature is that we hope to give more recognition and affordance
>>>> to our non-committer contributors through the Discussions platform. Stay
>>>> tuned for more info.
>>>>
>>>> As more Discussions features become available, we'll make use of them to
>>>> customize our space there, including linking to our project
>>>> "bylaws"/rules and code of conduct.
>>>>
>>>> Two caveats: Right now, there is no webhook availability for
>>>> Discussions, which means we can't mirror activity there to our user@
>>>> mailing lists. We've been told this will arrive around the time
>>>> Discussions leaves private beta.
>>>>
>>>> The other: Please remember that all discussion of project *direction*
>>>> and *decision making* must occur on the dev@ mailing list. It's fine to
>>>> link to threads in Discussions to help start the decision making
>>>> process, just the same as we do with Slack, Stack Overflow, etc. today.
>>>>
>>>> I hope this comes as welcome news to everyone. I'm pretty excited about
>>>> it! Special thanks to Jan Lehnardt, who helped get this enabled for us,
>>>> and Garren Smith, who started the discussion months ago about moving out
>>>> of the twentieth century for community building.
>>>>
>>>> -Joan "I'm a woman. I can change. If I have to. I guess." Touzet
>>>>
>>>
Re: Announcing GitHub Discussions for Apache CouchDB [Beta]
Posted by Joan Touzet <wo...@apache.org>.
Hi Piotr,
We learned of the feature based on friends who are testing the feature
in private beta, in places like the JavaScript React community:
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions
That page shows some of the upcoming features in Discussions, currently
hard coded for that community.
You'll have to talk to ASF Infrastructure if you want to experiment with
this feature. Open a JIRA ticket with them; they are the gatekeepers.
-Joan "now in the correct Channel" Touzet
On 2020-06-09 5:22 p.m., Piotr Zarzycki wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm PMC in a different Apache project and I was wondering - what required
> actually to switch ON Discussion on GH? How idea started?
>
> Thanks,
> Piotr
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 10:48 PM Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana <
> dottorblaster@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Woh! This is huuuge!
>> Thanks for making this happen :-)
>>
>> Alessio
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Joan Touzet <jo...@atypical.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra, Apache
>>> CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions
>>>
>>> Right now, we're beta testing this (in conjunction with MS/GitHub and
>>> the ASF) as a new user support channel. You may have already seen us
>>> move a few Issues over to Discussions, where they now belong.
>>>
>>> We're hoping that this gives people a friendlier way to build community
>>> around CouchDB, one that doesn't require mailing list membership or
>>> joining a possibly-intimidating Slack channel. Please feel free to use
>>> the Discussions to ask for help with CouchDB, share ideas, show us what
>>> you've done with CouchDB, offer thanks to the team, or post things you
>>> learned and want to share with others.
>>>
>>> One key feature is that we hope to give more recognition and affordance
>>> to our non-committer contributors through the Discussions platform. Stay
>>> tuned for more info.
>>>
>>> As more Discussions features become available, we'll make use of them to
>>> customize our space there, including linking to our project
>>> "bylaws"/rules and code of conduct.
>>>
>>> Two caveats: Right now, there is no webhook availability for
>>> Discussions, which means we can't mirror activity there to our user@
>>> mailing lists. We've been told this will arrive around the time
>>> Discussions leaves private beta.
>>>
>>> The other: Please remember that all discussion of project *direction*
>>> and *decision making* must occur on the dev@ mailing list. It's fine to
>>> link to threads in Discussions to help start the decision making
>>> process, just the same as we do with Slack, Stack Overflow, etc. today.
>>>
>>> I hope this comes as welcome news to everyone. I'm pretty excited about
>>> it! Special thanks to Jan Lehnardt, who helped get this enabled for us,
>>> and Garren Smith, who started the discussion months ago about moving out
>>> of the twentieth century for community building.
>>>
>>> -Joan "I'm a woman. I can change. If I have to. I guess." Touzet
>>>
>>
>
Re: Announcing GitHub Discussions for Apache CouchDB [Beta]
Posted by Piotr Zarzycki <pi...@gmail.com>.
Hi Guys,
I'm PMC in a different Apache project and I was wondering - what required
actually to switch ON Discussion on GH? How idea started?
Thanks,
Piotr
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 10:48 PM Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana <
dottorblaster@apache.org> wrote:
> Woh! This is huuuge!
> Thanks for making this happen :-)
>
> Alessio
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Joan Touzet <jo...@atypical.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra, Apache
> > CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository:
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions
> >
> > Right now, we're beta testing this (in conjunction with MS/GitHub and
> > the ASF) as a new user support channel. You may have already seen us
> > move a few Issues over to Discussions, where they now belong.
> >
> > We're hoping that this gives people a friendlier way to build community
> > around CouchDB, one that doesn't require mailing list membership or
> > joining a possibly-intimidating Slack channel. Please feel free to use
> > the Discussions to ask for help with CouchDB, share ideas, show us what
> > you've done with CouchDB, offer thanks to the team, or post things you
> > learned and want to share with others.
> >
> > One key feature is that we hope to give more recognition and affordance
> > to our non-committer contributors through the Discussions platform. Stay
> > tuned for more info.
> >
> > As more Discussions features become available, we'll make use of them to
> > customize our space there, including linking to our project
> > "bylaws"/rules and code of conduct.
> >
> > Two caveats: Right now, there is no webhook availability for
> > Discussions, which means we can't mirror activity there to our user@
> > mailing lists. We've been told this will arrive around the time
> > Discussions leaves private beta.
> >
> > The other: Please remember that all discussion of project *direction*
> > and *decision making* must occur on the dev@ mailing list. It's fine to
> > link to threads in Discussions to help start the decision making
> > process, just the same as we do with Slack, Stack Overflow, etc. today.
> >
> > I hope this comes as welcome news to everyone. I'm pretty excited about
> > it! Special thanks to Jan Lehnardt, who helped get this enabled for us,
> > and Garren Smith, who started the discussion months ago about moving out
> > of the twentieth century for community building.
> >
> > -Joan "I'm a woman. I can change. If I have to. I guess." Touzet
> >
>
Re: Announcing GitHub Discussions for Apache CouchDB [Beta]
Posted by Piotr Zarzycki <pi...@gmail.com>.
Hi Guys,
I'm PMC in a different Apache project and I was wondering - what required
actually to switch ON Discussion on GH? How idea started?
Thanks,
Piotr
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 10:48 PM Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana <
dottorblaster@apache.org> wrote:
> Woh! This is huuuge!
> Thanks for making this happen :-)
>
> Alessio
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Joan Touzet <jo...@atypical.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra, Apache
> > CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository:
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions
> >
> > Right now, we're beta testing this (in conjunction with MS/GitHub and
> > the ASF) as a new user support channel. You may have already seen us
> > move a few Issues over to Discussions, where they now belong.
> >
> > We're hoping that this gives people a friendlier way to build community
> > around CouchDB, one that doesn't require mailing list membership or
> > joining a possibly-intimidating Slack channel. Please feel free to use
> > the Discussions to ask for help with CouchDB, share ideas, show us what
> > you've done with CouchDB, offer thanks to the team, or post things you
> > learned and want to share with others.
> >
> > One key feature is that we hope to give more recognition and affordance
> > to our non-committer contributors through the Discussions platform. Stay
> > tuned for more info.
> >
> > As more Discussions features become available, we'll make use of them to
> > customize our space there, including linking to our project
> > "bylaws"/rules and code of conduct.
> >
> > Two caveats: Right now, there is no webhook availability for
> > Discussions, which means we can't mirror activity there to our user@
> > mailing lists. We've been told this will arrive around the time
> > Discussions leaves private beta.
> >
> > The other: Please remember that all discussion of project *direction*
> > and *decision making* must occur on the dev@ mailing list. It's fine to
> > link to threads in Discussions to help start the decision making
> > process, just the same as we do with Slack, Stack Overflow, etc. today.
> >
> > I hope this comes as welcome news to everyone. I'm pretty excited about
> > it! Special thanks to Jan Lehnardt, who helped get this enabled for us,
> > and Garren Smith, who started the discussion months ago about moving out
> > of the twentieth century for community building.
> >
> > -Joan "I'm a woman. I can change. If I have to. I guess." Touzet
> >
>
Re: Announcing GitHub Discussions for Apache CouchDB [Beta]
Posted by Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana <do...@apache.org>.
Woh! This is huuuge!
Thanks for making this happen :-)
Alessio
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Joan Touzet <jo...@atypical.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra, Apache
> CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository:
>
> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions
>
> Right now, we're beta testing this (in conjunction with MS/GitHub and
> the ASF) as a new user support channel. You may have already seen us
> move a few Issues over to Discussions, where they now belong.
>
> We're hoping that this gives people a friendlier way to build community
> around CouchDB, one that doesn't require mailing list membership or
> joining a possibly-intimidating Slack channel. Please feel free to use
> the Discussions to ask for help with CouchDB, share ideas, show us what
> you've done with CouchDB, offer thanks to the team, or post things you
> learned and want to share with others.
>
> One key feature is that we hope to give more recognition and affordance
> to our non-committer contributors through the Discussions platform. Stay
> tuned for more info.
>
> As more Discussions features become available, we'll make use of them to
> customize our space there, including linking to our project
> "bylaws"/rules and code of conduct.
>
> Two caveats: Right now, there is no webhook availability for
> Discussions, which means we can't mirror activity there to our user@
> mailing lists. We've been told this will arrive around the time
> Discussions leaves private beta.
>
> The other: Please remember that all discussion of project *direction*
> and *decision making* must occur on the dev@ mailing list. It's fine to
> link to threads in Discussions to help start the decision making
> process, just the same as we do with Slack, Stack Overflow, etc. today.
>
> I hope this comes as welcome news to everyone. I'm pretty excited about
> it! Special thanks to Jan Lehnardt, who helped get this enabled for us,
> and Garren Smith, who started the discussion months ago about moving out
> of the twentieth century for community building.
>
> -Joan "I'm a woman. I can change. If I have to. I guess." Touzet
>
Re: Announcing GitHub Discussions for Apache CouchDB [Beta]
Posted by Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana <do...@apache.org>.
Woh! This is huuuge!
Thanks for making this happen :-)
Alessio
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Joan Touzet <jo...@atypical.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks to some personal connections and the support of ASF Infra, Apache
> CouchDB now has GitHub Discussions enabled on our repository:
>
> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions
>
> Right now, we're beta testing this (in conjunction with MS/GitHub and
> the ASF) as a new user support channel. You may have already seen us
> move a few Issues over to Discussions, where they now belong.
>
> We're hoping that this gives people a friendlier way to build community
> around CouchDB, one that doesn't require mailing list membership or
> joining a possibly-intimidating Slack channel. Please feel free to use
> the Discussions to ask for help with CouchDB, share ideas, show us what
> you've done with CouchDB, offer thanks to the team, or post things you
> learned and want to share with others.
>
> One key feature is that we hope to give more recognition and affordance
> to our non-committer contributors through the Discussions platform. Stay
> tuned for more info.
>
> As more Discussions features become available, we'll make use of them to
> customize our space there, including linking to our project
> "bylaws"/rules and code of conduct.
>
> Two caveats: Right now, there is no webhook availability for
> Discussions, which means we can't mirror activity there to our user@
> mailing lists. We've been told this will arrive around the time
> Discussions leaves private beta.
>
> The other: Please remember that all discussion of project *direction*
> and *decision making* must occur on the dev@ mailing list. It's fine to
> link to threads in Discussions to help start the decision making
> process, just the same as we do with Slack, Stack Overflow, etc. today.
>
> I hope this comes as welcome news to everyone. I'm pretty excited about
> it! Special thanks to Jan Lehnardt, who helped get this enabled for us,
> and Garren Smith, who started the discussion months ago about moving out
> of the twentieth century for community building.
>
> -Joan "I'm a woman. I can change. If I have to. I guess." Touzet
>