Piotr shared a very good observation (in a private Slack post
<https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/C4TQW0M5L/p1692821047719209>) that
users ask questions in GitHub Issues, we point them to the mailing list,
and they disappear. See this ticket
<https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1722> for an example.
Consequently, Matt proposed using GitHub Discussions. Robert added Pulser
already has it enabled <https://github.com/apache/pulsar/discussions>. I
think many users are more keen on forums, GitHub, StackOverflow, etc. We
should position ourselves where our users expect us to be. In that
regard, *GitHub
Discussions sounds like a great idea and I propose experimenting with it*:

   - Enable GitHub Actions
   - Update our support page accordingly
   - Update README

One would think this should be a matter of a `.asf.yaml` one-liner, but it
is not
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=INFRA&title=Git+-+.asf.yaml+features#Git.asf.yamlfeatures-GitHubDiscussions>
:

*"GitHub Discussions is currently a beta feature and does not have an API
endpoint. Until this is addressed, please open an Infra Jira ticket with a
link to a consensus discussion thread for your project."*


Hence, *I need your approval in the form of a reply to this post*.

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