Improving Open Source Contributor Support

[jeremy-donson]

Discussions are for subjects/topics which are not explicit issues.
https://docs.github.com/en/discussions/managing-discussions-for-your-community/managing-discussions
Using the web site for 3.x discussions and this service for 4.x discussions may prove advantageous?

Improving Open Source Contributor Support is the first proposed discussion topic: https://musescore.org/en/contribute

• development
• testing (separate tech testing from doc testing?)
• docs
• user support
• design and usability
• translations
• plugins
• marketing

Each contrib type could be its own discussion.
Some already have a corresponding discord channel.

Discussions are for subjects/topics which are not explicit issues.
https://docs.github.com/en/discussions/managing-discussions-for-your-community/managing-discussions

Sample contributions would help pave the road for each contrib type.
Issue templates and labels can help us better support user requests.
Therefore I am reviewing existing issue templates and labels.
Feature + tests + bugs are to come first.
Docs will follow.

Several user bases are paramount:

• legacy 3.x users
• emerging 4.x users
• musicians
• music teachers
• music students

Three types of automation are of interest:

• Authoring
• Publishing
• Collaboration

I will be transferring some questions from this issue: #11535

Links to web site forum discussions may be helpful.
Here is just such an example: https://musescore.org/en/node/331750

[jeremy-donson]

Here is the web site forums home: https://musescore.org/en/forum
We might want to tag discussions accordingly.

Also, since v4 is nearly feature-complete, we may want to start a v5 tag for issues and discussions?

https://docs.github.com/en/issues/guides

https://docs.github.com/en/discussions/guides