Welcome to inboard discussions!

[br3ndonland]

👋 Welcome!

We’re using Discussions as a place to connect with other members of our community. We hope that you:

• Ask questions you’re wondering about.
• Share ideas.
• Engage with other community members.
• Welcome others and are open-minded. Remember that this is a community we build together 💪.

FAQ

Why are GitHub issues disabled?

I don't want to spend my free time as an unpaid project manager.

I took some inspiration from the encode organization (Tom Christie and friends) when thinking about this. Encode is responsible for great Python packages like HTTPX, Starlette, and Uvicorn. The encode maintainers are implementing "maintainer-driven issues." As described in the encode contribution guidelines:

Taking issues and suggestions to the discussion group, will help allow us to have a more consistent voice in setting the direction and priorities of the project. Over time the issue tracker should more clearly reflect what we feel is important, and pull requests should tend to better reflect active ongoing work.

It’ll also help reduce stress and burnout, particularly important during these difficult times, by ensuring that the project maintainers are able to keep issue trackers nicely limited in scope.

The maintainer-driven issues approach makes sense for an organization like encode. For me as a solo maintainer, I can drive changes to the project myself, so I don't really need GitHub issues at all.

I also think having project management as a paid premium feature could be a useful open-source business model. GitHub should enable this, maybe by allowing access to issues only if the user sponsors the project with GitHub Sponsors. Again, encode does a nice job of this, offering sponsorship tiers and providing monthly reports.

How can I contribute?

PRs welcome!

• See CONTRIBUTING.md for general instructions.
• Start a discussion and see if there's interest in what you want to do.
• If it sounds like a good idea, fork the repo, write and commit your new code, and open a PR.

How should I behave?

As explained in the code of conduct, we recommend:

• Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
• Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
• Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
• Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
• Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community