Welcome to CGNStalk!

[brtnfld]

👋 Welcome!

CGNStalk Discussions has been set up to facilitate the exchange of information among CGNS users.

[poinot]

Great!

Thanx @brtnfld & @MicK7 for the setup!

Nice new @CGNS mailing list, thanks to NASA for hosting ye old good mailman for years!

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[MicK7]

All the thanks and praises should go to Scot

[crumsey]

We have a lot of “watchers” on NASA’s CGNSTalk… people who are interested in CGNS-related discussions, but they are by no means “contributers”. What do these types of people have to do to be a part of the new discussions? Do they have to have a github.com account, and subscribe to CGNS? Do they have to be set up as part of the “contributer” team? Should we have a “watcher” team set up for this instead? Or do they not have to be a member of any CGNS team? It’s not clear to me what actions a person needs to take in order to receive discussions by email (if desired), if they are currently not a member of github.com. Chris

[brtnfld]

As far as I know, you would have to have a GitHub account and watch the CGNS/CGNS repo (with the discussion option set) to get a notification (by email if that is how you have your GitHub account settings).

They don't need to be a member of any team.

[poinot]

Probably these people are not interested with all emails.

We could have a separate 'hard-coded' list and send a digest with release notes, or maybe have a news page everybody could read (and add an RSS on this page?)

[MicK7]

With current setup you can use the "custom watch" feature to monitor either Release or Discussion or both.
So this is quite close to the current CGNS mailing list. Then to not be spammed too much one can unsubscribe to topics. To keep a discussion less noisy the maintainer could also make the discussion private but it would defeat the goal of the forum as an open place.

[brtnfld]

I did not see the suggestion in discussions feedback for a digest mode,

https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/discussions-feedback

so I think we would have to suggest that feature there.