Moving discussions to GitHub?

[Michael Strauß]

With the GitHub Discussions feature now out of beta*, I'd like to
start a conversation on whether it could be a good idea for the
OpenJFX project to embrace it as the primary place to discuss and
interact with the broader community.

While I understand that mailing lists have a long tradition with
OpenJDK projects, I feel that they are not a great tool for building
and maintaining a community. It's pretty hard to search archived mails
and find relevant information or past discussions. Sure, you can do
it, but it's not very inviting and accessible.

It also seems to me that the mailing list is very disconnected from
the people actually using OpenJFX. Since most people already are on
GitHub, and most people interested in OpenJFX will find its GitHub
repository, it would also seem to be the most logical place to invite
people into the community and join our discussions.

After all, growing and maintaining a community is fundamental for
every open-source project to remain relevant.

* https://github.blog/2021-08-17-github-discussions-out-of-beta