GitHub Universe and shiny new things

[Thad Guidry]

GitHub is continuing to launch amazing new features if anyone is watching them rollout now as I type this from GitHub Universe.

GitHub Discussions

It's nice that they have GitHub Discussions available for Projects and in Beta now.

This is similar to Discourse which I know Martin liked the idea of at one point in time.

And will be covered in more detail here: https://githubuniverse.com/Building-your-community-with-GitHub-Discussions/

But I think we'll opt out of the Beta for now and let this mature and see how things go?

Reasonings I'm thinking of are:

1. Some folks like email and use it

2. but others don't and turn to Stackoverflow and others to ask or get answers or collaborate.

3. What we officially monitor should be a fairly small set of places where we say: For support, use our Gitter, Mailing List, or if you prefer Discussion forum.

I think on point 3, that would be our max capacity, definitely for me at least (1 Chat, 1 email, 1 forum)

Anyways, we can always turn Discussions on once we all agree that this is something our users really want but I think more importantly our devs/support can maintain.

GitHub Docs

On Docs, I think we made the right choice at the right time with Docusaurus.

Even though GitHub Docs is now open source, and does have integration with GitHub Actions, etc.  it still feels a bit rough around the edges for our purposes and immediate needs we had.  I don't see a need to jump ship from Docusaurus and Netlify now or possibly ever in the future. But for other new projects, they might look into GitHub Docs now perhaps based on their own needs.

Thad

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/