# Moving to GitHub Discussions from email lists

## Why move away from mailing-lists?

* Barrier to new contributors
* Yet Another Communication Channel to monitor
* Searching archives impossible
* Hard to link discussion to code-changes/bug reports

## Pros of moving to GitHub Discussions

* github UI is familiar to community
* many/most users already have a github login
* discoverability
* but see below
* code, bugs, and conversation all in one place
* easy to separate out Announcements from Meeting minutes from General discussions etc.

## Cons of GitHub Discussions
* Tied to a repo
* we had to invent github.com/pulp/community
* mot as discoverable as we'd hoped
* works, but feels like a hack
* Filtering discussion-notifications from "all the other github notifications" is Hard/PITA
* discussions-only-repo makes this possible
* see prev RE hack
* community users already trained to think of github-notifications as 'spam' ("I get literally thousands")

## Other options under consideration

* Fedora/Hyperkitty lists
* better than Mailman
* Discourse
* Pulp approved for a free instance
* investigation/conversation underway

## Notes from SatTeamLead
* tbrisker
* discourse experience really good
* maintainence has been super ewasy
* ggainey to point daviddavis missile at tbrisker
* can prob/possibly import mailman archives into discourse?
* talk w/ Greg Sutcliffe