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> The forum was built to be a feature request tracker. It was explicitly built to not be a tracker, but a discussion platform. The documentation describes them
by shkkmo 4y ago
> The forum was built to be a feature request tracker.
It was explicitly built to not be a tracker, but a discussion platform. The documentation describes them thus: "Discussions are for conversations that need to be transparent and accessible but do not need to be tracked on a project board and are not related to code, unlike GitHub Issues."
Thus, once a discussion needs to be tracked or linked to code changes, an issue is required. I'm in favor of providing more tools to orgnizations, but in practice I see very few to none of the projects that I depend on or interface with that actually use github discussions (I presume that is because so many discussions eventually need to be tracked or linked to code changes.)
> It's used extensively for that purpose at Github
Yet, when I look at the Discussions discussion, it's full of random junk, much of which looks like poorly written bug reports.