docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide

[grtninja]

Summary

• remove the stale GitHub Discussions reference from CONTRIBUTING.md
• direct questions and ideas to Discord or Issues while Discussions are disabled
• keep the fix scoped to issue Contributing page mentions discussions #541 with no code-path changes

Why

Closes #541. The contributing guide currently points contributors to GitHub Discussions even though Discussions are not enabled for this repository.

Validation

• python -m pytest tests/ -v --ignore=tests/benchmarks ✅ (567 passed)
• ruff check . ✅
• ruff format --check . ⚠️ baseline repo drift in mempalace/normalize.py and mempalace/split_mega_files.py unrelated to this PR

[web3guru888]

Simple, correct fix. The Discussions link has been a minor papercut — new contributors would open the tab and see nothing there.

The replacement text ('Please use Discord or open an issue while GitHub Discussions are not enabled for this repo') is accurate and actionable. No behavior change, no risk.

LGTM.

[web3guru888]

PR #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide

Clean, accurate one-line fix. This closes #541 and addresses a real usability papercut: new contributors landing on the contributing guide and clicking "Discussions" would hit an empty or disabled tab, which erodes trust in the documentation.

What's done well:

The replacement text is concise and accurate: "Please use Discord or open an issue while GitHub Discussions are not enabled for this repo". It conveys three things correctly — the feature is currently off (not permanently removed), Discord is the right venue for open-ended questions, and issues remain appropriate for bugs and feature requests. That's the right framing.

The scope is exactly right. Nothing else in CONTRIBUTING.md is touched, which is exactly what this kind of fix should be: surgical and minimal. No risk of introducing unrelated changes.

One minor consideration:

The phrase "while GitHub Discussions are not enabled" is slightly ambiguous — it could mean either "until they're re-enabled" (a temporary situation) or "given that they're not enabled" (a current state). If Discussions are permanently disabled for this repo, "since GitHub Discussions are not enabled" would be slightly cleaner. If there's a chance they'll be re-enabled, "while" is fine. Either way it's clear enough.

Missing piece (not blocking):

It would be worth archiving or closing any issues/threads that currently reference the Discussions link directly, to prevent stale cross-links from resurfacing the problem. That's out of scope for this PR though.

Overall verdict:

Correct fix, right scope, no risk. LGTM — ready to merge.

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Reviewed by MemPalace-AGI — autonomous research system with perfect memory

[web3guru888]

Clean fix. LGTM.

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[MemPalace-AGI integration — 540+ discoveries, 5,251 KG triples]

[grtninja]

Backlog recheck on 2026-07-23: current develop still contains - **Discussions**: For questions and ideas, while GitHub Discussions remains disabled. This PR is still mergeable, has an approval, changes only that one documentation line, and still closes #541. No additional code changes are needed; ready for maintainer merge.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-08T22:00:38Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN / ready / mergeable=true; changed files=1
• Checks/workflows observed at this head: Tests=success
• Review state: 2 reviews / 0 review threads / 0 current unresolved
• Contributor guidance recheck: AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md
• Exact-surface overlap: none detected among this open-PR union
• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the exact current head/diff, run the narrowest relevant validation, and keep maintainer/review follow-up moving without duplicate bot triggers.
• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer nudge; re-read this exact head/diff before any review reply.

This is a public-safe coordination receipt only. No push, merge, publication, credential, runtime, model, GPU, auth, or protected-reasoning mutation was performed or authorized by this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-09T04:01:16Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN / ready / mergeable=true; changed files=1
• Checks/workflows observed at this head: Tests=success
• Review state: 2 reviews / 0 review threads / 0 current unresolved
• Contributor guidance recheck: AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md
• Exact-surface overlap: none detected among this open-PR union
• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the latest review state on this exact head, run the narrowest relevant validation, and keep maintainer follow-up moving without duplicate bot triggers.
• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer nudge; re-read this exact head/diff before any review reply.

This is a public-safe coordination receipt only. No push, merge, publication, credential, runtime, model, GPU, auth, or protected-reasoning mutation was performed or authorized by this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-09T10:00:48Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN / ready / mergeable=true; changed files=1
• Checks/workflows observed at this head: Tests=success
• Review state: 2 reviews / 0 review threads / 0 current unresolved
• Current unresolved paths: none
• Contributor guidance recheck: AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md
• Exact-surface overlap: none detected among this open-PR union
• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the exact current head/diff, run the narrowest relevant validation, and keep maintainer/review follow-up moving without duplicate bot triggers.
• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer-review nudge; re-read current head/diff before any reply.
• Coordination boundary: public-safe packet only; no push, merge, publish, protected model/reasoning mutation, or process restart in this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-09T16:01:56Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN / ready / mergeable=true; observed merge-state=see live inventory; changed files=1
• Checks/workflows at this head: Tests=success
• Review state: 2 reviews (latest APPROVED by web3guru888) / 0 review threads / 0 current unresolved
• Current unresolved paths: none
• Contributor guidance recheck: AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md
• Exact-surface overlap: none detected among this open-PR union
• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the exact current head/diff, run the narrowest relevant validation, and keep maintainer follow-up moving without duplicate bot triggers.
• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer-review nudge; re-read current head/diff before any reply.
• Coordination boundary: public-safe packet only; no push, merge, publish, protected model/reasoning mutation, or process restart in this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-09T22:00:57Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN / ready / mergeable=true; observed merge-state=see authoritative REST inventory; changed files=1
• Checks/workflows at this head: Tests=success
• Review state: 2 reviews (latest APPROVED by web3guru888) / 0 review threads / 0 current unresolved
• Current unresolved paths: none
• Contributor guidance recheck: AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md
• Exact-surface overlap: none detected among this open-PR union
• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the exact current head/diff, run the narrowest relevant validation, and keep maintainer follow-up moving without duplicate bot triggers.
• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer-review nudge; re-read current head/diff before any reply.
• Coordination boundary: public-safe packet only; no push, merge, publish, protected model/reasoning mutation, or process restart in this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-10T04:00:32Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN / ready / mergeable=true; observed merge-state=see authoritative REST inventory; changed files=1
• Checks/workflows at this head: Tests=success
• Review state: 2 reviews / 0 review threads / 0 current unresolved
• Current unresolved paths: none
• Contributor guidance recheck: AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md
• Exact-surface overlap: none detected among this open-PR union
• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the exact current head/diff, run the narrowest relevant validation, and keep maintainer follow-up moving without duplicate bot triggers.
• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer-review nudge; re-read current head/diff before any reply.
• Coordination boundary: public-safe packet only; no push, merge, publish, protected model/reasoning mutation, or process restart in this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-10T10:00:38Z

• Fresh 10:01Z refresh: authoritative 34-PR union unchanged versus 04:00Z; no head, state, merge-state, review/thread, check, or changed-file deltas.

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide

• Exact head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)

• State: OPEN / ready / mergeable=true; observed merge-state=see authoritative REST inventory; changed files=1

• Checks/workflows at this head: Tests=success

• Review state: 2 reviews / 0 review threads / 0 current unresolved

• Current unresolved paths: none

• Contributor guidance recheck: AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md

• Exact-surface overlap: none detected among this open-PR union

• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the exact current head/diff, run the narrowest relevant validation, and keep maintainer follow-up moving without duplicate bot triggers.

• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer-review nudge; re-read current head/diff before any reply.

• Coordination boundary: public-safe packet only; no push, merge, publish, protected model/reasoning mutation, or process restart in this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-10 16:01:44Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact current head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN; mergeable=true; changed files=1
• Fresh connector refresh: exact head, base, state/draft, mergeability, changed-file count, review count/body/state/commit, review threads, current-unresolved set, guidance paths, and actionable overlaps match the 10:00Z baseline; no substantive maintainer/reviewer note changed.
• Merge-state evidence: direct REST merge-state refresh is temporarily degraded by Windows host admission; last direct REST snapshot is support evidence only (last direct REST support only). Do not treat that support snapshot as a new current merge-state claim.
• Exact-surface overlap: actionable groups unchanged (PennyGPT-Lite Knowledge graph: auto-resolve conflicting triples, not just detect them #11/Add OpenClaw skill integration #12/fix: handle non-interactive init prompts gracefully #13; VRM-Sandbox Architectural similarities to Sara Brain (prior art — public since March 16, 2026) #104/docs: add Gemini CLI setup guide #106/docs(readme): Improve MCP configuration guide and streamline setup with uvx #109; skill-arbiter-private Please give examples of hooks #20/feat: add OpenCode SQLite session database support #23/Change the name to Multiparse #24; grtninja/ComfyUI Congratulations Milla #1 versus Comfy-Org/ComfyUI #13362; mx3-public-shim Non-interactive mode for all commands (agent-friendly) #8/Starlog published a deep-dive on milla-jovovich/mempalace #9).
• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the current head/diff, address current review findings, and run the narrowest relevant validation.
• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer-review nudge; re-read current head and diff before any reply.
• Coordination boundary: public-safe packet only; no push, merge, publish, protected model/reasoning mutation, process restart, or process kill in this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-10 22:01:41Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact current head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN; draft=false; mergeable=true; REST merge_state=clean; changed files=1
• Fresh connector refresh: exact head/base/state/draft/mergeability, review/thread/check, guidance, and actionable-overlap data were refreshed for all 34 open PRs; normalized direct-REST comparison to 10:01Z is zero; no substantive maintainer/reviewer note changed.
• Fresh review/thread/check evidence: connector refresh completed for 34/34 PRs; reviews=2, threads=0, current-unresolved=0; workflow/check records and guidance/overlap snapshots were refreshed.
• Merge-state evidence: direct Windows REST snapshot 2026-08-10T22:05:06Z reports mergeable=true, merge_state=clean; normalized comparison against the 10:01Z REST snapshot is zero.
• Exact-surface overlap: actionable groups unchanged (PennyGPT-Lite Knowledge graph: auto-resolve conflicting triples, not just detect them #11/Add OpenClaw skill integration #12/fix: handle non-interactive init prompts gracefully #13; VRM-Sandbox Architectural similarities to Sara Brain (prior art — public since March 16, 2026) #104/docs: add Gemini CLI setup guide #106/docs(readme): Improve MCP configuration guide and streamline setup with uvx #109; skill-arbiter-private Please give examples of hooks #20/feat: add OpenCode SQLite session database support #23/Change the name to Multiparse #24; grtninja/ComfyUI Congratulations Milla #1 versus Comfy-Org/ComfyUI #13362; mx3-public-shim Non-interactive mode for all commands (agent-friendly) #8/Starlog published a deep-dive on milla-jovovich/mempalace #9).
• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the current head/diff, address current review findings, and run the narrowest relevant validation.
• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer-review nudge; re-read current head and diff before any reply.
• Coordination boundary: public-safe packet only; no push, merge, publish, protected model/reasoning mutation, process restart, or process kill in this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-11 04:00:16Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact current head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN; draft=false; mergeable=true; REST merge_state=unknown; changed files=1
• Fresh connector refresh: exact head/base/state/draft/mergeability, review/thread/check, changed-file, guidance, overlap, and maintainer-note surfaces were refreshed for all 34 open PRs; structural comparison against 22:00Z is zero; the 28 REST comment-count increases are the prior 22:00Z packets, with no substantive comments after those markers.
• Fresh review/thread/check evidence: 34/34 connector metadata, reviews, threads, workflow runs/status, changed-file lists, and issue-comment timelines refreshed; reviews=2, threads=0, current-unresolved=0.
• Merge-state evidence: direct Windows REST snapshot 2026-08-11T04:09:41Z reports mergeable=true, merge_state=unknown; normalized structural comparison against 22:00Z is zero.
• Exact-surface overlap: actionable groups unchanged (PennyGPT-Lite Knowledge graph: auto-resolve conflicting triples, not just detect them #11/Add OpenClaw skill integration #12/fix: handle non-interactive init prompts gracefully #13; VRM-Sandbox Architectural similarities to Sara Brain (prior art — public since March 16, 2026) #104/docs: add Gemini CLI setup guide #106/docs(readme): Improve MCP configuration guide and streamline setup with uvx #109; skill-arbiter-private Please give examples of hooks #20/feat: add OpenCode SQLite session database support #23/Change the name to Multiparse #24; grtninja/ComfyUI Congratulations Milla #1 versus Comfy-Org/ComfyUI #13362; mx3-public-shim Non-interactive mode for all commands (agent-friendly) #8/Starlog published a deep-dive on milla-jovovich/mempalace #9).
• Owner next bounded action: Owner: re-read the current head/diff, address current review findings, and run the narrowest relevant validation.
• Bot/review policy: no duplicate bot trigger and no human maintainer-review nudge; re-read current head and diff before any reply.
• Coordination boundary: public-safe packet only; no push, merge, publish, protected model/reasoning mutation, process restart, or process kill in this pass.

[grtninja]

Current-head coordination packet — 2026-08-11 10:01:08Z

• PR: docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide #555 — docs: remove GitHub Discussions reference from contributing guide
• Exact head/base: 5dcdd1e14d11efdbb7c966d8c1ca2c537684a2bf / base 1056018b521824a590400e36ccb540588f065895 (develop)
• State: OPEN; mergeability unknown (REST mergeable=unknown)
• Fresh evidence: author/involves union refreshed at 2026-08-11T10:01:08Z; 34/34 PR info, reviews, threads, issue comments, checks, and file lists returned successfully. Direct REST refresh is 34/34; structural comparison vs 04:00Z has no head/base/state/draft/changed-file movement; three MemPalace mergeability fields are transient unknown and remain recheck-only. The 28 REST comment-count increments are the expected 04:00 coordination packets; no substantive post-04 issue-comment delta was observed.
• Reviews/threads: 2 review submissions; 0 inline review threads; 0 currently unresolved.
• Checks: Tests:success.
• Changed surface: 1 file(s). Contributor guidance, exact-surface overlap, and current-head review state were rechecked.
• Owner next action: Owner: re-read the current head and diff, address any current review findings, and run the narrowest relevant validation.
• Priority blockers: none observed on the current review-thread snapshot.
• Coordination guard: no duplicate bot trigger, no human maintainer nudge, no push/merge/publish, and no protected model/reasoning mutation. G07 Main Arbiter remains unchanged; this packet preserves the recipient's current model/reasoning.

[igorls]

Wave 3 minimal for 3.7.0: LGTM. Docs/tests/tiny fix only.