Should we place vsg-users google group with discussion forum on github?

[Robert Osfield]

Hi All,

Over the years github has steadily improved the range of features it supports for repositories and this year it added Discussion support that you can enable for repositories with just a couple of web admin clicks.

Had this facility been available at the start of the VulkanSceneGraph project I would have just enabled it and never had to start up vsg-users google group.  We now 4 and half years worth of discussions on this group which is still a valuable resource.

There are downsides with the google-group, the main one is that countries like China block google groups so a big potential user base won't be able to read discussions and join in themselves. 

Discussions being there right in the repo also has its advantages, I like one stop shops where you can go to get the software, report issues, submit improvements and potentially just chat about ideas and ask questions in a way that gets archived in an easily viewable form.

However, I haven't used the github discussion feature yet.  I see that osgEarth has adopted it, do folks here have experience with it? 

    https://github.com/gwaldron/osgearth/discussions

From my own personal preference, I am always busy writing/debugging software and trying to keep up with discussions, spreading myself too thinly is always a problem so I'd much rather have one discussion forum for the VSG project, so we either stick with vsg-users googlegroup or move to a githuib discussion forum on the VulkanSceneGraph repo and keep the googelgroup around just for keep old discussions archived.

Thoughts?

Robert.

[SHAYNE TUELLER]

I'm for the move to the discussion forum on github. It's more in line with what others are doing.

Regards

Shayne 

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[Robert Osfield]

Hi All,

I have decided to go ahead with setting up Discussions forum on the VulkanSceneGraph github repository:

    https://github.com/vsg-dev/VulkanSceneGraph/discussions

My expectation is that we'll have a transition period while we all get used to using the new Discussions forum, then once it's working well change this vsg-users googlegroup into a read only archive.

This ticks off another of my MUST TODO items for VSG-1.0 :-)

Cheers,

Robert.