Moving discussions to GitHub?

[Dan Howard]

How do you get people to know that there's a discussion going on? We 
subscribe to follow things here.  How would people outside find things 
to get involved?

On 8/19/2021 8:50 PM, Michael Strauß wrote:
> 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