GitHub Discussions

[mnot]

We've started to experiment with using GitHub Discussions in an IETF WG, and some have asked for a summary of discussions to show up in the activity summary.

Discussions don't appear to be listed in GitHub event types, but apparently there is GraphQL support.

[dontcallmedom]

could you share a pointer to these github discussions, and maybe what the summary would look like?

I guess adding GraphQL to the picture might be an option; it looks like Discussions might be coming to webhooks later, which I assume would imply having them exposed as event types too.

[richsalz]

maybe what the summary would look like?

I would say nothing fancy, just treat each new thread as a new issue.

I appreciate that Discussions is still in state of flexibility :) so no quick rush. Like next week is fine instead of now. :)

[xfq]

i18n is also experimenting with using GitHub Discussions, and a summary of discussions in the daily/weekly digest would be useful. Some examples of other places in W3C where GitHub Discussions is used:

• wai-mission
• dapt
• low-vision-a11y-tf
• wcag2ict
• secure-payment-confirmation
• web-audio-api
• design-reviews
• gpuweb
• open-ui

Unicode also uses GitHub Discussions in icu4x.

[xfq]

I've missed several threads recently because of the lack of support for GitHub Discussions. I understand Dom is pretty busy, but I'd like to know if the support of GitHub Discussions is planned in the future?