Asdf: Community chat, where to get help

[morenoh149]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There should be clear instructions for where to go to get help. Stackoverflow tag, irc channel, gitter, something.

Describe the solution you'd like
I think a community irc channel on freenode or discord server would be great.

This type of stuff should be listed in the readme.

[jthegedus]

@morenoh149 I thought GitHub Issues was implied when looking for help.

This type of stuff should be listed in the readme.

To right. I will add this to the README.

Currently the channel for communicating with the @asdf-vm/core is via GitHub Issues.

Community driven chat does not exist at this time. IMO I would like to keep as much communication, community or otherwise, within GitHub as it is then easily indexed by search engines and avoids rehashing previously solved/answered problems/questions.

GitHub have a Discussions feature which would be ideal (it's unclear if it's still in beta or off by default).

In the meantime I guess GitHub Issues. I hesitate to recommend or start a non-GitHub IRC at this time.

[Stratus3D]

I like the idea of documenting a Stackoverflow tag. Doing so will make it easier for people to ask for help there (or help answer questions!). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asdf-vm is the tag I am watching.

[Stratus3D]

Currently the channel for communicating with the @asdf-vm/core is via GitHub Issues.

I think this is probably best for the core team. If you need general help it's probably best to read the docs or ask a question on StackOverflow or another community site and not bother the core team. If you've found a bug or have a feature request, then involve the core team by opening a GitHub issue of the appropriate type. I personally don't have the time to dedicate to StackOverflow or another communication method right now, and I suspect this is true for most of us on the core team.

[jthegedus]

@Stratus3D Can you look in the repo GitHub settings to see if Discussions is available for us? I cannot see it in other Orgs I am in, but they're not public so unsure if that is the reason I cannot see an option to enable it.

I second SO as being the next best place to ask questions.

"Where to get help" will be added to the Docs.

[Stratus3D]

@jthegedus I poked around the settings for the repo and the org and didn't find anything other than one setting at the org level that was already on (see screenshot)

[jthegedus]

I guess we just have to wait for this to be released. A shame we cannot opt-in to the Beta

[jthegedus]

@morenoh149 You should now see GitHub Issues and StackOverflow links in the README (also rendered on the homepage of the website) and website Sidebar under a "Community and Questions" heading. While we don't have a traditional realtime chat-based community yet, we're awaiting GitHub Discussions as our preferred method over tools like Discord/Gitter etc, once that is released it will show in GitHub and we'll have additional links in the aforementioned places.

[jthegedus]

GitHub Discussions is now live on this repo :tada: - https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/discussions