GitHub Discussions on Slack

[imaliyov]

Hi. Thank you very much for a great tool. Is there a chance to see the GitHub Discussions messages on Slack?

[stephenyeargin]

Suggested commands:

Subscribe to all Discussion threads on a repository

/github discussions org/repo

Select which events you want to see

/github discussions org/repo new
/github discussions org/repo comment
/github discussions org/repo answered

Granular selection based on labels

/github discussions org/repo [action] +category:"Q&A"

[stephenyeargin]

Heh. To be clear, this hasn't been implemented. Referencing this from #1026 as providing feedback to the product team as they start work on it.

[imaliyov]

Yes, I tried it just now and got "Invalid command!" message. It would be very useful once it is ready..

[verdverm]

new would be great, as many conversations that start in slack we be great to move into a GH discussion

[webknjaz]

Looks like they are still working on it: #1026 (comment)

[ssbarnea]

Can we please get some updates on this as github discussions become extremely popular and we need to be able to engage with them.

It did not take much time to GH team to include notifications about discussions into their webhook and adding this feature to slack hook is likely just an hour of coding, including writing tests for it.

[iCGSE]

How is the traffic in capacity?

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[rowi1de]

Are there any plans to allow filtering by label / category?

it would be really nice to subscribe to discussion categories :)

e.g „Show & tell“ might be different slack channel than „RFC“ for notifications

[charles-ferguson]

This would be incredibly useful for our Org. We have a central discussions repo and we want to route different categories to post to different channels in slack to drive engagement. Right now we are looking at writing our own application to handle the channel routing we want but would love if slack integration just solved this for us.

[rowi1de]

It’s already possible now https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-08-introducing-the-ability-to-subscribe-to-specific-discussion-categories-on-slack/

[charles-ferguson]

Thank you @rowi1de and the slack integration team. That completely solved what we were trying to do.

[alberttwong]

Is there a way to get notifications when a github discussion updated? I'm using discussions to store tutorials. We update the tutorials with ever version release so I'd like to notify slack users when they have been updated.

[machty]

@alberttwong I need this as well -- I was able to "solve" this in Desktop Slack by personally enabling notifications for thread messages, but haven't found a solution that enables it for everyone. Did you find a workaround?