Issue
Currently there are two locations to discuss Avalon-related things:
- The Avalon Issues section to discuss bugs/feature requests.
- The Avalon Gitter that acts as an active chat for quick discussions and help questions.
Both serve a very good purpose, but also have their drawbacks for the community. The Github issue section seems like a hurdle for non-developers to start using it. They tend to stay away from it. Additionally it wouldn't be the perfect place for tons of questions a newcomer might have. With the Gitter chat it's non-trivial to trace back certain discussions and the same questions often tend to come up because newcomers can't easily find back previous answers.
As such, a decent community forum could overcome this. It can serve specific topics and can be discussed openly and they are easy to read through at a later stage. It's less scary than Github issues too and familiar for most people. Additionally it's easy to find specific topics or "tags" of interest.
Implementation
Likely a Discourse forum would be perfect as discussed on Avalon Gitter. This is also used by BlenderArtists, Pyblish forums and Tech-Artist Forums. Here is the Avalon community forum discussion on Avalon gitter which later continued here.
Issue
Currently there are two locations to discuss Avalon-related things:
Both serve a very good purpose, but also have their drawbacks for the community. The Github issue section seems like a hurdle for non-developers to start using it. They tend to stay away from it. Additionally it wouldn't be the perfect place for tons of questions a newcomer might have. With the Gitter chat it's non-trivial to trace back certain discussions and the same questions often tend to come up because newcomers can't easily find back previous answers.
As such, a decent community forum could overcome this. It can serve specific topics and can be discussed openly and they are easy to read through at a later stage. It's less scary than Github issues too and familiar for most people. Additionally it's easy to find specific topics or "tags" of interest.
Implementation
Likely a Discourse forum would be perfect as discussed on Avalon Gitter. This is also used by BlenderArtists, Pyblish forums and Tech-Artist Forums. Here is the Avalon community forum discussion on Avalon gitter which later continued here.