💡 Idea: migrate issues to discussions and surface them to the org level

[webknjaz]

Observations

This repository's README calls out the possibility to use both Issues and Discussions but does not give any guidance as to when to use each. I feel like this contributes to the confusion in the decision making. Moreover, when one tries to create an issue, they are presented with a selection of issue templates that are derived from the org config and have nothing to do with the purpose of this repository — every one of them is asking for Ansible/collection versions/OS/STR/etc. I've clicked through a few of the old issues and haven't found any, following said templates. This means that every single issue creator was forced to clean up the template or notice that tiny Open a blank issue. link at the bottom. FWIW, it doesn't seem like the posts here do need any templates at all.

Issues represent problems/bugs/something to be worked on in the project. But this repository seems to exist for having discussions and announcements. Also, https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/discussions/4#discussion-3845807 mentions that earlier expectation of using discussions over issues.

Problems

I think, the current setup causes more cognitive load, than it should.

• Having two places to watch over means maintenance burden and contributor confusion. Multiple ways of doing the same thing is not good.
• Issues aren't well-fit for making announcements.

Proposal

• [ ] Migrate issues into discussions (GH makes automatic redirects)
• [ ] Disable issues in the repository, only leave the discussions enabled
• [ ] Enable organization-level discussions, selecting this repository as their location (the discussions can't be detached from the repo)
• [ ] Make use of the existing discussion categories:
  • [ ] Announcements — only maintainers can post there
  • [ ] Q&A — allows selecting the correct response
  • [ ] Polls — has built-in interface for collecting preferred solutions with answer variants to the question being discussed
  • [ ] Show and tell — show-off (not sure if needed in this specific repo)
  • [ ] Ideas — requests to do stuff/change processes/etc.

[samccann]

Hi @webknjaz ! This is an interesting idea. Can you please include it as a comment to the existing community-topic that is up for active vote on using Discourse as a forum for Ansible. See https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/202

I don't wish to be heavy-handed as you have some great points, but going to close this issue for now so we don't split the conversation. Thanks for the ideas!