Welcome to Git for Windows' Discussions!

[dscho]

Welcome to Git for Windows!

We’re using Discussions as a place to connect with other members of our community. We hope that you:

• Ask questions you’re wondering about.
• Share ideas.
• Engage with other community members.
• Contribute using your talents to make Git for Windows better.

To keep this a safe space, let's always be respectful and be open to learn from each other.

[PhilipOakley]

Hi Dscho,

I was wondering what "Discussions" was, and had left your welcome email bookmarked to come back to.

If I understand correctly "Discussions" is a type of tab on the GitHub 'Git for Windows' project to complement the "Issues" and "Code" tabs (it's the next one after the "Pull Request" tab, just before the "Actions". And then the "Wiki" tab is a bit further to the right.

One thing that could be discussed is how to present the flatness of the project structure (if we can call the people organisation that..). It feels that many folks out there think that there must be some mega team of ninja coders ready to leap at any suggestion or issue, in "the Windows Way" (is that a thing?), when the reality is far less 'organised'. I'm a bit loathe to open the potential can of worms of such a discussion as they often just need a bigger can to hold the discussion! Are there are any ideas (Question to one and all) about how to simplify the engagement of folks into the project?

Also, is this Discussions tab a catch all topic, or can new ones be started? I see that is #2929 already - is it really a variant of the Issues bit with some hidden switch flicked. How's that (starting a new discussion topic) done?

Hopefully this reply at least starts some others thinking about dropping in for a chat, (given half the world looks to be in lockdown of some sort)

[dscho]

Personally, I am curious to see in what ways people use the Discussions feature, and don't want to impose any rules myself (instead, I'd like to keep the rules more consensus-based).

It's kind of neat that issues can be converted to discussions when it turns out that the issue isn't about a bug in Git for Windows at all.

[PhilipOakley]

I hadn't even realised there was a discussion feature! (hence the follow up of your notification..)

I see that the notification emails don't indicate that it's a discussion or has change to a discussion...

Maybe someone (of the readers) could add a link on the home-page and maybe the FAQs

[derrickstolee]

Discussions are mostly a way to separate user requests and questions from the project's TODO list (issues).

The threaded sub-conversations (like this one) help with this.

Also, we could use it as a replacement for StackOverflow, except the maintainer has more control over which answers are "accepted", or could remove answers that are misleading or incorrect. I'm interested to see if users start coming here for that purpose.