Moving issues to discussions

[codingjoe]

Hi, y'all,

While starting to grind through the issues, I started to look into the oldest issues without updates. Many of which are feature proposals. Over a decade-old feature proposals…

I often move future feature ideas to the Ideas section in discussions instead of maintaining an issue graveyard.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, should you have any. Otherwise, I'd start moving some accompanied by a nice comment.

Cheers!
Joe

[tim-schilling]

I'm not able to to see a major difference. They are likely to sit around waiting for someone to give it some attention. Even closed issues can be revived if there's a reason.

Splitting up where we do triaging may make sense if things were a flurry of activity, but it's not.

If the underlying concern is, "I don't know how to best help!" I think that's valid. But changing our process probably isn't the answer. Communicating where to look for issues (things that are recently created with discussions, newcomer friendly label) in the docs seems like a more effective solution.

[codingjoe]

Hm… you make some good points. Especially with searching the issues.

I was motivated by being polite while closing issues. Moving them to discussion is felt less harsh. But the same can be achieved with a well-crafted response.

That being said, let's close the Ideas section in the discussion then. I know it's a default, but it was enough to confuse me :P

[tim-schilling]

That's fair. The four topics we've had all probably could have been issues.

[tim-schilling]

I'll give it some time. If there's no objections in a week or so, we can drop this section.