Enable comments on datafusion-site via giscus

[kevinjqliu]

I think its beneficial to the community to add a comment section to the datafusion blogs. Personally, I would like to have follow up discussions on the blog post topic.

I found a possible solution using giscus and pelican, https://alexgonzalezc.dev/posts/github-comment-system.html

Happy to contribute this! :)

[alamb]

Adding comments to the blog would be great -- I only worry that we won't see the comments and therefore won't respond. Maybe we could make a git hub issue or something for each blog 🤔

[kevinjqliu]

I only worry that we won't see the comments and therefore won't respond.

Thats a good point. I think subscribing to the "Discussions" events on the github repo will help with this

giscus works by creating a corresponding discussion thread for each post and linking the comments in the thread.
Heres an example, kevinjqliu/blog#3

[alamb]

giscus works by creating a corresponding discussion thread for each post and linking the comments in the thread.
Heres an example, kevinjqliu/blog#3

Sounds like a great idea. Thank you !

[kevinjqliu]

cheers, i'll put up a PR

[kevinjqliu]

@alamb could you take a look at #81 and #82 when you get a chance?
I also plan on creating a Makefile so running this repo locally can just be a make build

[kevinjqliu]

Giscus has 3 requirements

• The repository is public, otherwise visitors will not be able to view the discussion.
• The giscus app is installed, otherwise visitors will not be able to comment and react.
• The Discussions feature is turned on by enabling it for your repository.

I've requested giscus to be installed for this repo (apache/datafusion-site), waiting for approval.
@alamb do you have permission to turn on discussion? Otherwise, I can ask apache infra

[alamb]

I've requested giscus to be installed for this repo (apache/datafusion-site), waiting for approval.
@alamb do you have permission to turn on discussion? Otherwise, I can ask apache infra

I think you can do it via asy.yml

Here is an example: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/blob/92d8632b01b9897a5fd1f9fdb753156b847e8ba9/.asf.yaml#L48

[kevinjqliu]

Opened #85 to turn on discussion for datafusion-site repo

[kevinjqliu]

i created an apache infra ticket to enable the giscus github app for this repo
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-26989

[kevinjqliu]

@alamb last item to make this work

The giscus app is installed, otherwise visitors will not be able to comment and react.

can you check if you have permission to grant access? https://github.com/apps/giscus/installations/select_target

[alamb]

I didn't have permissions, but I could make a request which I did:

[kevinjqliu]

I think this can only be done by the apache org admin, according to github docs

lets wait on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-26989
if you know someone from apache infra that can help, that would be great!