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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.