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Discussions guides
Discover pathways to get started or learn best practices for participating or monitoring your community's discussions.
Best practices for community conversations on GitHub
You can use discussions to brainstorm with your team, and eventually move the conversation to an issue when you are ready to scope out the work.
Finding your discussions
You can easily access every discussion you've created or participated in.
Granting higher permissions to top contributors
Repository administrators can promote any community member to a moderator and maintainer.