Town Square - As a user, I want an easy way to turn an interesting post into a GitHub issue

[willsputra]

User Story

As a user, I want an easy way to turn an interesting post on the Town Square into a GitHub issue

Why Is this Needed

Summary: There are a lot of awesome ideas and feature requests on the Town Square. As a repo owner / contributor to open source, I want to turn these ideas and feature requests into issues in GitHub repo, so it can be worked on in the future.

Description

Rough idea: maybe have a button on each post, that will make a new issue on GitHub with the post content as the issue detail?

Might also need a way to select a repo on GitHub since the ideas might be related to different repos.

[walidmujahid]

I will work on this. This is sorely needed for Gitcoin's Web repository, so I will focus on that first and then expand it to any Github repository. This feature is also relevant to #6051 idea which I would like to see -need more community input on that, though, and probably @owocki.

[walidmujahid]

Flow:

Simplified:

• User clicks on a button to turn a post into a Github issue - a post could be either a status post or comment, but should it be one or the other? A townsquare comment does not have a short character limit, so perhaps that may be the best?
• Link to the Github issue will be posted as a comment under the activity
• Link to the Github issue will also be posted as an activity on its own
• The user will be shown an alert recommending they edit the Github issue as soon as possible

As for the buttons the user is shown, a single button would be simple and so I could assume that users will click it specifically to:

... turn these ideas and feature requests into issues in Github repo

With that assumption, I will work off the feature_request.md as a base.

A more complex version could be:

• User clicks on button to turn post into issue
• A model is shown on the page giving the user the option to select whether they are suggesting/requesting a feature or reporting a bug. They would also have the option to edit and add to the text so they do not have to go to Github to edit
• Link to the Github issue will be posted as a comment under the activity
• Link to the Github issue will also be posted as an activity on its own
• The user will be shown a success alert

[walidmujahid]

Sorry for not making an early PR. I will still be working on this and will try to open a WIP PR soon.

[walidmujahid]

Draft WIP PR opened: #6201

[walidmujahid]

I still need to figure the tokens for users to enable the public_repo permission before I open up the draft WIP PR.

Beyond that, I recently took a look at the Select2 docs for #6191 (comment) and I was surprised to find the example for remote data selection to be using GitHub repos. So, I think before I remove the WIP stats of my PR, I will add in the feature to select any public GitHub repo.

[walidmujahid]

This should not be closed @thelostone-mc. Work is still being done on the PR.