GitHub UI: Reduce noise
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To remove the "noise" associated with the project, I suggest disabling the following unused features if it still applies:
Go to General settings and disable the Wiki, Projects and Discussions tabs |
If empty or unused, hide Releases and Packages section on the right side |
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Note that in the context of this project, the Wiki should likely remain enabled was it contains relevant details for getting SlicerCIP and getting in touch with the maintainers.
I agree that these features should be turned off. I don't have admin rights to this repository, so I cannot do it myself.
The information currently in the wiki is usually described markdown files in the repository, so if we move that content then the wiki could be turned off, too.
It is just to simplify things.
For example, if we provide user support via the Slicer forum then it is better to turn off Discussions here, so that we don't need to monitor two user support sites, but only one.
We don't use Releases and packages, so it is cleaner to hide them (to indicate that it is not the way how we manage releases and packages).
Projects feature is rarely used in general and this repository does not use it either. If the user clicks on Projects then an empty page is s displayed. It is better to not display the heading at all, to save the extra two clicks for users exploring the project.
Wiki on Github is meant to be a lighterweight tool for documentation. The issue is that it is too limited, for example contributors either can make changes directly (without pull request) or they cannot make changes at all. It also write redundant, since Github quite nicely renders markdown pages in the main repository. For small projects it is simpler and more consistent to keep all documentation in markdown files in the main repository.