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731813879 MDU6SXNzdWU3MzE4MTM4Nzk= 4549 [Proposal] Migrate general discussions from the xarray gitter room to GitHub Discussions 13301940 closed 0     5 2020-10-28T21:48:29Z 2020-11-25T22:28:41Z 2020-11-25T22:28:41Z MEMBER      

Currently, xarray has a room on Gitter: https://gitter.im/pydata/xarray. This room works fine for discussions outside of the codebase. However, Gitter has a few disadvantages:

  • The contents are not indexed by search engines
  • Searching through existing discussions is almost impossible
  • Linking to prior conversations in the room is also complicated

A few months ago, GitHub announced GitHub discussions which is meant to serve as a forum for discussions outside of the codebase. I am of the opinion that GitHub discussions is a better alternative to Gitter. I am wondering if xarray folks would be interested in enabling GitHub discussion on this repo, and migrating general discussions from Gitter to GitHub discussions?

GitHub Discussions is still in beta, but projects can request early access here

Here is a list of a few projects with beta access:

 
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