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Generally, Github Issues are used as a bug tracker, not a community FAQ. Asking a maintainer to compare and contrast their project with another project or git f
by sjburt 5y ago
Generally, Github Issues are used as a bug tracker, not a community FAQ. Asking a maintainer to compare and contrast their project with another project or git feature seems a bit demanding.
- villasv 5y agoKeyword: generally. Plenty of projects do allow community questions, specially small ones or early stages. Is there anywhere else to ask that question? If there is, it isn't prominently signified, answering at least "ask this >here<" would be common sense. At a minimum, this issue evidences the need of documentation and should be addressed in some way with more than "I don't have to answer this".
- bjtitus 5y agoGitHub Discussions is a much better place to handle Q&A: https://docs.github.com/en/discussions https://docs.github.com/en/discussions
- detaro 5y agoWhich didn't exist when that issue was created.
- wildmanxx 5y agoAnd none of the people in this thread did provide even a hint of an answer either...
- detaro 5y agoIt's not a trivial question, so it's not that surprising that nobody answers it without prior knowledge of the thing?
- hnuglnnpyrkoata 5y agoThere is now an answer to the question in https://github.com/esrlabs/josh/issues/23 https://github.com/esrlabs/josh/issues/23