I’m new to the open source community. When I look at projects on Github I don’t see any “forum”. There’s only an “issues” page. Is that only meant for submitting bugs? Or can I say other things? for example:
- Can I suggest features? e.g. “I have an idea. It would be great if this project had this and that.”
- Can I ask questions like “How does this work?” or “What’s the syntax for this?”
- Is it nice to address problems that I’m having? e.g. “I tried this but it didn’t work. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. Can someone help me?”
- Can I ask what the owners think about a pull request I want to send? e.g “I’m going to implement this. Would you accept it?”
Yes to all but check to see if there is a better place for 2 and 3.
StackOverflow should be your first port of call, first to check if your question has been asked and second to construct a question.
1 and 4 are most certainly the sort of things you can create an issue for. The maintainers are likely to tag them as ‘Feature request’ or ‘Improvement’ etc.