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And mention in contributing and core team guide

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Should I whip up a blog post for xarray.dev?

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ianhi commented Mar 19, 2026

Should I whip up a blog post for xarray.dev?

I also really want to get xarray-contrib/xarray.dev#821 out. and ideally have it be the top blog post so it gets a little love. so lets maybe do blgo fast and releaes it then that one on top?

Altohugh beyond a blog post we can do whatever on xarray.dev. it could just be link on the homeapge

@VeckoTheGecko VeckoTheGecko changed the title DOC: Add Zulip announcement banner DOC: Add Zulip announcement banner and mention in docs Mar 19, 2026
The recommended place to ask a question is on `GitHub Discussions <https://github.com/pydata/xarray/discussions>`_
, but we also have a `Discord <https://discord.com/invite/wEKPCt4PDu>`_ and a
The recommended places to ask questions are `GitHub Discussions <https://github.com/pydata/xarray/discussions>`_
or the Xarray channel in the `OSSci Zulip <https://ossci.zulipchat.com/>`_. We also have a `Discord <https://discord.com/invite/wEKPCt4PDu>`_ and a
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whats teh deal with the discord these days? If we can avoid splitting communication channels it would be great.

Similar thought on how we are directing to github disucssions (whihc are good things!) would be nice to clarify what is for what. although to be clear as is this is good

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I was just about to post an issue about it to be discussed separately/didn't want it to get in the way of this PR. I think core devs might have opinions about the mailing list and Discord (which are both quite dead).

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  • promote Discussions and Zulip
  • link to mailing list/discord in a "in the past we've communicated via mailing list and discord" - in case people want to look up prior coms

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Co-authored-by: Ian Hunt-Isaak <ianhuntisaak@gmail.com>
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ideally have it be the top blog post so it gets a little love. so lets maybe do blgo fast and releaes it then that one on top?

We could also just have an announcement banner on the main website?

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