Thank you for reporting this,@jhsoby. We already have a task about it. We will soon start working on consolidating mentor features, including this feature request.

Moving to needs discussion / analysis. As far as I can tell, what we would want to do is switch the help panel / mentorship question ask feature to use ApiDiscussionToolsEdit, and then we'd get the subscribe functionality for free (and also remove our custom ApiHelpPanelPostQuestion.php code). Sounds like a win-win to me. We'd need to add on the change tag for the help / mentorship panel, but that shouldn't be hard.

@MMiller_WMF @RHo do you have any product concerns with using DiscussionTools API for creating the new section on a mentor's talk page when a question is asked via the help panel?

In T292916#7422837, @kostajh wrote:

Moving to needs discussion / analysis. As far as I can tell, what we would want to do is switch the help panel / mentorship question ask feature to use ApiDiscussionToolsEdit, and then we'd get the subscribe functionality for free (and also remove our custom ApiHelpPanelPostQuestion.php code). Sounds like a win-win to me. We'd need to add on the change tag for the help / mentorship panel, but that shouldn't be hard.

@MMiller_WMF @RHo do you have any product concerns with using DiscussionTools API for creating the new section on a mentor's talk page when a question is asked via the help panel?

hiya - same as my comment at T272146#7423107 - this sounds like a fab idea and mainly would like check iwith @Urbanecm_WMF in case it causes issues with mentor dashboard, and to fix those as well if so.

Discussion continues at T272146: Automatically ping newcomers when their question has been answered. :)