Skip to content

[SHIPPING] Enable GitHub Discussions for community Q&A #21

@wi287g

Description

@wi287g

GitHub Discussions is friendlier for non-technical contributors (journalists, lawyers, researchers, residents) than Issues, which has a "bug report" connotation.

Tasks

  • Repo → Settings → Features → tick Discussions
  • Create categories:
    • 📣 Announcements (locked, maintainer-only)
    • 🙋 Q&A (county data questions, source questions)
    • 📊 Data contributions (share new PDFs, open-records responses)
    • 💡 Ideas (feature suggestions from non-technical contributors)
  • Pin a welcome post explaining what the dashboard is and how to contribute data
  • Link to Discussions from the dashboard's "About" sidebar section

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    M5-shippingMilestone 5: ShippinginfraGitHub Actions, Pages, deploymentshippingLaunch, outreach, distribution

    Projects

    No projects

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions