Should we switch user requests to discussion ?

[rom1504]

Hi,
So GitHub discussion now exists.
In mineflayer we get lot of users bug reports, question, and discussion that are not clear yet because users don't know mineflayer very well.

It seemed to us (@TheDudeFromCI and me) that it would make sense to move these user requests to discussions and keep issues only for a cleaned up and well explained version of bug and feature request.
That way it'll let users communicate in the way they want, and it would clean up issues and make it easier for contributors to understand what need to be done.

What do you think ?

[rom1504]

#1501 (comment) is related

[TheDudeFromCI]

Yes, I believe all question-related issues should be moved to Discussions. This will automatically clean up a significant portion of the listed issues. Existing bug reports and feature requests might need to be handled on a case-by-case basis. New bug reports and features can be started in Discussions and ported over, as mentioned in #1501.

[stenlan]

Fully agreed. Only formal, well-formatted and reproducible bug reports, suggestions or other issues should be under the actual issues

[wvffle]

It also seems to me that those discussions are better way of keeping track of different topics (compared to Discord). If we'd move the community here, Discord or rather Gitter could be used as a simple chat between people who want to discuss things in a more slack way.

So yeah, I second GitHub Discussions.

[rom1504]

I'm not sure if people currently asking for help in discord would be willing to move here. In that sense GitHub discussion is not that different from issues, it's not instant messaging.

[TheDudeFromCI]

I don't think it would move questions and help from Discord, but instead, long term projects and builds that people can check up on days, weeks, or months later. Help and questions are still going to be heavily involved on both platforms.