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Allow locked categories #2937
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A nice feature would be to have "Locked categories" These categories would essentially allow Users with Write/Push access to create a post in it. Would allow important announcements without the fear that people could fill the categorie with questions or topics not meant for it. The current alternative would be to just post them in a general category and pin it which often isn't that great, especially if you already have pinned posts. |
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We've heard this feedback quite a bit before, especially as it relates to having a category like Are there any other use cases for customizing the granularity of read/write permissions at a category level that you can think of needing? |
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A very strong connection would be with security advisories - be able to discuss in private and then optionally make the discussion public. Also ability to "lock" discussions (e.g. after a discussion has turned into an editor war) but leave them readable by the public |
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probably the wrong place for this but have an option like "lock to contributors" options for general discussions , due to the fact the discussions may be used as a place for spam |
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In the scientific Python ecosystem, we use enhancement proposals (similar to Python's PEPs) in many projects (e.g., NumPy, scikit-image, NetworkX, etc.). I've started looking into integrating the discussions in to this process and this feature would be very helpful. The basic idea is anyone could submit an "Ideas" Discussion for a new enhancement proposal. The new idea for a proposal would be discussed and the community could comment on it. It the idea attracts interest and seems worth considering, the core developer team would move the discussion to the "Enhancement Proposal" category from the "Ideas" category. At the same time, the idea would be given an enhancement proposal number (just like PEPs have). The person who contributed the idea (or whoever else ends up volunteering to write the enhancement proposal) would be asked to create a PR with a draft of the new enhancement proposal using the assigned number and pointing to the "Enhancement Proposal" discussion. It is annoying that anyone can submit a new discussion to the "Enhancement Proposal" category currently. Ideally, anyone to be able to discuss things in the "Enhancement Proposal" category, but only the core developers/maintainers would be able to move items from the "Ideas" category to the "Enhancement Proposal" category. |
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I think this falls under the category of announcements, but we're using a dedicated category called "Pinned" for our pinned Discussions, and it would be great to be able to limit that to specific people/teams/repo collaborators. https://github.com/elementary/edw/discussions/categories/pinned |
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For context, we're using Discussions to plan an online conference. We could also use a locked category to move Discussions once they're accepted as a talk, which would be pretty slick: https://github.com/elementary/edw/discussions/categories/talk-proposals |
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The only other thing would perhaps be a changelog category, but I would say that this is still quite close to announcements which doesn't make it that significantly different. |
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Another thing I personally thought of was for a "development blog" category. I've adopted discussions as the "forum" of my project, so it would be great if I could have a locked category for development updates. It is of course similar to the "announcement" category, but I was thinking more for blog style posts similar to Paradox Development Diaries (if anyone plays eu4 😉) where as I use the "announcement" category solely as a place for changelogs or other big changes relating to the entire scope of the project. |
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My idea is just about locking categories to people with push access. |
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I might have formulated myself badly then, because that wasn't the message I was trying to convey either. I was just trying to present another use case for locked (as in not open for everyone to post) categories other than the "announcement" category, which was mentioned in the first reply. |
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My use case would be posting Guides. |
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I'd like this feature as well! I've got an idea to build a blog backed by Discussions, where discussions in a certain category become blog posts and responses become comments on the post. For this to work, there would need to be a distinction in the permissions between posting a new discussion and replying to an existing discussion. |
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Announcement Category Format - Private Beta Available 🚀Thank you for all of the feedback on labels! I'm excited to announce that we have a private beta available, where you can create a new announcements category. In this category format, only admins and maintainers can post a new discussion to the category, but anyone can comment and reply. If you'd like to be included in the beta, please share the repository you'd like to be flagged in below. For now, this private beta is limited to the first 15 repositories that respond.
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Great news! :) I'd love to test this on |
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✅ all repos in this thread have been flagged in! so if you go to category customization, you should see the option for adding an announcements category now! @Andre601 seems like botblock/JavaBotBloclAPI leads to a 404 repository. maybe there's a typo in the name you provided? |
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@evi-liu You're right. It's botblock/JavaBotBlockAPI |
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hey @evi-liu I encounter a weird issue with locked categories, which is that I can create, and edit categories to be locked, move existing discussions to them, but cannot create discussions in that category itself (Doesn't show in the category selection). Is this a intentional behaviour of sorts? This happens on botblock/JavaBotBlockAPI EDIT: One thing I also wonder is if the GitHub-Actions account together with the GitHub token is considered a Maintainer for discussions, as I consider preparing a Workflow that creates an automatic discussion based on this style here (compared to GitHub's option of creating a discussion with a release) whenever I make a new release. |
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Could I also get https://github.com/Andre601/OneVersionRemake added for this? |
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Announcements category available as public beta! 🚀Thanks for all of the helpful feedback and private beta testing of the announcements category. We've now rolled this out to all repositories with Discussions. Happy announcing and feel free to drop any feedback in this thread. |
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@antn Thank you very much, it works on my GitHub App now! Also, could you take a look at #3968? It's not directly related but it would be awesome if it could be fixed. Thanks! |
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Hi @antn - Discord just turned on locked announcement categories in our repo, and non-admin/maintainer users are reporting that they're able to create a discussion under an open category, then edit the discussion and select the locked category successfully. Is this a misconfiguration on our part, or maybe a bug? |
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Can confirm this (^) is reproducible: The
When posting as a regular user, you cannot post to it:
Once posted though, as a regular user, you can open the category menu and choose the locked
This does indeed successfully move it to the locked category, as a regular user:
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Sorry about that, @IanMitchell and @MattIPv4! I just deployed a fix, so that shouldn't be possible anymore. This appears to have been a bug with the initial implementation of the announcements feature, and not the recent changes – but great catch! 😱 |
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Thanks so much! Appreciate the quick fix! |
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I just pray it's dose not happen again |
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Announcements category available as public beta! 🚀
Thanks for all of the helpful feedback and private beta testing of the announcements category. We've now rolled this out to all repositories with Discussions. Happy announcing and feel free to drop any feedback in this thread.