[docs] remove ref to google groups -> github discussions (ray-project…

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.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
-name: Feature request
-about: Suggest an idea for Ray, Tune, RLlib, etc.
+name: Feature request/Question
+about: For feature requests or questions, post on our Github Discussions page instead!
 title: ''
 labels: enhancement, triage
 assignees: ''
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ assignees: ''
 <!--Please include [tune], [rllib], [autoscaler] etc. in the issue title if relevant-->
 
 ### Describe your feature request
+
+For feature requests or questions, post on our Github Discussions page instead: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/discussions!

CONTRIBUTING.rst

@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@ Reporting bugs and asking questions
 
 You can post questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:
 
-1. `[email protected]`_: For discussions about development or any general
- questions and feedback.
-2. `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
-3. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
+1. `Github Discussions`_: For discussions about development, questions about usage, and feature requests.
+2. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
+3. `StackOverflow`_
 
 To contribute a patch:
 ----------------------
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ To contribute a patch:
  a git hook that will run the linter before you push your changes.
 5. Add new unit tests for your code.
 
-.. _`[email protected]`: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ray-dev
+.. _`Github Discussions`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/discussions
 .. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
 .. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
 
@@ -43,4 +42,4 @@ For contributors who are not in the ray-project organization:
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 - Your PRs will have assignees shortly. Assignees or PRs will be actively engaging with contributors to merge the PR.
-- Please actively ping assignees after you address your comments! 
+- Please actively ping assignees after you address your comments!

README.rst

@@ -197,10 +197,10 @@ Ray Serve Quick Start
 
 `Ray Serve`_ is a scalable model-serving library built on Ray. It is:
 
-- Framework Agnostic: Use the same toolkit to serve everything from deep 
- learning models built with frameworks like PyTorch or Tensorflow & Keras 
+- Framework Agnostic: Use the same toolkit to serve everything from deep
+ learning models built with frameworks like PyTorch or Tensorflow & Keras
  to Scikit-Learn models or arbitrary business logic.
-- Python First: Configure your model serving with pure Python code - no more 
+- Python First: Configure your model serving with pure Python code - no more
  YAMLs or JSON configs.
 - Performance Oriented: Turn on batching, pipelining, and GPU acceleration to
  increase the throughput of your model.
@@ -292,19 +292,16 @@ More Information
 Getting Involved
 ----------------
 
-- `[email protected]`_: For discussions about development or any general
- questions.
-- `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
-- `GitHub Issues`_: For reporting bugs and feature requests.
-- `Pull Requests`_: For submitting code contributions.
-- `Meetup Group`_: Join our meetup group.
+- `Github Discussions`_: For discussions about development, questions about usage, and feature requests.
+- `GitHub Issues`_: For reporting bugs.
 - `Community Slack`_: Join our Slack workspace.
 - `Twitter`_: Follow updates on Twitter.
+- `Meetup Group`_: Join our meetup group.
+- `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
 
-.. _`[email protected]`: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ray-dev
+.. _`Github Discussions`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/discussions
 .. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
 .. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
-.. _`Pull Requests`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pulls
 .. _`Meetup Group`: https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Ray-Meetup/
 .. _`Community Slack`: https://forms.gle/9TSdDYUgxYs8SA9e8
 .. _`Twitter`: https://twitter.com/raydistributed

doc/source/_help.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+You can post questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:
+
+1. `Github Discussions`_: For **questions about Ray usage** or **feature requests**.
+2. `GitHub Issues`_: For **bug reports**.
+3. `Ray Slack`_: For **getting in touch** with Ray maintainers.
+4. `StackOverflow`_: Use the [ray] tag **questions about Ray**.
+
+.. _`Github Discussions`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/discussions
+.. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
+.. _`Ray Slack`: https://forms.gle/9TSdDYUgxYs8SA9e8
+.. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray

doc/source/cluster/kubernetes.rst

@@ -285,16 +285,8 @@ To delete a running Ray cluster, you can run the following command:
 Questions or Issues?
 --------------------
 
-You can post questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:
+.. include:: /_help.rst
 
-1. `[email protected]`_: For discussions about development or any general
- questions and feedback.
-2. `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
-3. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
-
-.. _`[email protected]`: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ray-dev
-.. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
-.. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
 
 .. _`Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler`: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/
 .. _`Kubernetes Namespace`: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces/

doc/source/cluster/launcher.rst

@@ -221,13 +221,4 @@ This tells ``ray up`` to sync the current git branch SHA from your personal comp
 Questions or Issues?
 --------------------
 
-You can post questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:
-
-1. `[email protected]`_: For discussions about development or any general
- questions and feedback.
-2. `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
-3. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
-
-.. _`[email protected]`: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ray-dev
-.. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
-.. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
+.. include:: /_help.rst

doc/source/cluster/yarn.rst

@@ -189,15 +189,6 @@ To clean up a running job, use the following (using the application ID):
 Questions or Issues?
 --------------------
 
-You can post questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:
-
-1. `[email protected]`_: For discussions about development or any general
- questions and feedback.
-2. `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
-3. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
-
-.. _`[email protected]`: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ray-dev
-.. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
-.. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
+.. include:: /_help.rst
 
 .. _`Skein`: https://jcrist.github.io/skein/

doc/source/memory-management.rst

@@ -254,13 +254,4 @@ In the above example, the memory quota is specified statically by the decorator,
 Questions or Issues?
 --------------------
 
-If you have a question or issue that wasn't covered by this page, please get in touch via on of the following channels:
-
-1. `[email protected]`_: For discussions about development or any general
- questions and feedback.
-2. `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
-3. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
-
-.. _`[email protected]`: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ray-dev
-.. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
-.. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
+.. include:: /_help.rst

doc/source/ray-overview/involvement.rst

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 Ray is more than a framework for distributed applications but also an active community of developers,
 researchers, and folks that love machine learning. Here's a list of tips for getting involved with the Ray community:
 
-- Join our `community slack <https://forms.gle/9TSdDYUgxYs8SA9e8>`_ to discuss Ray! The community is extremely active in helping people succeed in building their ray applications.
+- Join our `community slack <https://forms.gle/9TSdDYUgxYs8SA9e8>`_ to discuss Ray!
 - Star and follow us on `on GitHub`_.
+- To post questions or feature requests, check out the `Ray Github Discussions`_ page!
+- Follow us and spread the word on `Twitter`_!
 - Join our `Meetup Group`_ to connect with others in the community!
 - Use the `[ray]` tag on `StackOverflow`_ to ask and answer questions about Ray usage
-- Subscribe to `[email protected]`_ to join development discussions.
-- Follow us and spread the word on `Twitter`_!
 
-.. _`[email protected]`: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ray-dev
+
+.. _`Ray Github Discussions`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/discussions
 .. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
 .. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
 .. _`Pull Requests`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pulls

doc/source/tune/_tutorials/_faq.rst

@@ -256,10 +256,4 @@ are efficiently stored and retrieved on your cluster machines.
 Further Questions or Issues?
 ----------------------------
 
-Reach out to us if you have any questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:
-
-1. `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
-2. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
-
-.. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
-.. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
+.. include:: /_help.rst

doc/source/tune/key-concepts.rst

@@ -257,10 +257,4 @@ Now that you have a working understanding of Tune, check out:
 Further Questions or Issues?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Reach out to us if you have any questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:
-
-1. `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
-2. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
-
-.. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
-.. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
+.. include:: /_help.rst

doc/source/tune/user-guide.rst

@@ -568,10 +568,4 @@ There are some environment variables that are mostly relevant for integrated lib
 Further Questions or Issues?
 ----------------------------
 
-You can post questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:
-
-1. `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
-2. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
-
-.. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
-.. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues
+.. include:: /_help.rst