Creating a support forum about pyvista-support

[akaszynski]

Agreed. It would clean things up a bit on the main repo as well. GitHub has great formatting and we could get people motivated to create a GitHub username and start contributing.

[akaszynski]

Absolutely! I like the discourse format, and think it would be better than the slack.

[banesullivan]

Welp - I thought discourse was free... looks like we either pay a maintenance fee or set up our own server to host the site.

Anyone know of free alternatives?

[banesullivan]

I’m thinking the best free alternative might be to create a separate repository called pyvista-support under @pyvista where people can create issues for their general-use questions about the software.

A benefit of this would be using GitHub’s new “transfer issue” feature which would help us move improperly raised issues to their proper places - e.g. if someone opens a general-use issue here, we can move it to pyvista-support and if an issue is raised in pyvista-support that describes a bug or feature-request, we could move it here.

Also, GitHub issues already have excellent markdown, code formatting, and file uploading support already built-in.

One thing to consider is that the scope of this support forum might become much bigger than @pyvista as I might encourage folks using omfvista to raise issues there and people using packages where pyvista is a supporting module might post questions that go beyond the scope of just pyvista but using pyvista with that other library

[banesullivan]

We need to add an issue template and screenshots on how to create a new issue