Can I start a discussion for a repo to which I do not belong?

[JohnHalleyGotway]

This question is just a followup to Ligia's question about whether or not you need to belong to a repo to start a discussion. I suspect the answer is no, anyone can start a discussion on a public repo. And hopefully this discussion will confirm that!

Since I asked this in the Q&A category, I believe your options (as a moderator) are:

• delete this discussion
• respond back and click the checkbox to confirm that it has been "Answered"
• transfer this discussion to a different repo
• lock the conversation on this discussion preventing future comments
• pin the discussion to the top of the discussions pane

[ligiabernardet]

Thank you for starting this discussion. I am glad you could post here even though you are not a member of this repo. This is informative as we consider our options for the way forward with CCPP developer support.
I am not a moderator so I cannot take the actions you mentioned, but others can.

[llpcarson]

As a moderator, I see all of those options are available to me.

Also, based on my experiments, anyone (public) can see the discussions, but one must have a GitHub login in order to open a new discussion or add a comment. Which makes sense to me.

Moderators can also add categories, although each discussion can only have one category tag.

[rgrumbine]

Test/demo of non-member commenting.

[climbfuji]

That worked!