Allow converting Discussion to Issue

[kzu]

Discussions are great to flesh out potential new features proposed by users (i.e. devlooped/ThisAssembly#34). Once it's been agreed it would be a good issue/feature to work on, in some cases it might be handy to just be able to turn the discussion into an Issue directly and label it appropriately.

[TG-Techie]

It is a feature I tried to find/use after the first successful discussion had

When you say "into an Issue directly" are you proposing that the comments / etc would be lifted and transferred into comments on the issue as if they were typed there?

I think having a section where the user turning the discussion into an issue can type a small summary and list of actionables would be useful.

[bartr]

If you have permissions, you can do this by clicking the ... on the discussion. It "references" the discussion in an issue vs. "converting". We use it all the time and it's working great.

[riverar]

We find that customers aren't immediately sure if a particular topic is a discussion or issue and create a discussion in error. We then find ourselves needing to take action on that particular item, but without the same issue resolution tools available to us. It would be great to convert a discussion into an issue, maintaining the original author.

Reference in new issue is a decent workaround for now though.

[kernc]

just be able to turn the discussion into an Issue directly and label it appropriately

Just that. In most cases, a discussion turns out to be an issue very quickly, and there's plenty of discussion in issues anyway.

[Torxed]

I'm absolutley in favor of this, for instance in cases like this: archlinux/archinstall#168

Where a conversation later turned out to be a work item/issue.
But now It's kind of stuck in a discussion forum forever.. Which doesn't make sense because it doesn't really have an "answer".

[driesvints]

Seems to be available now! 🎉

[Torxed]

That's great, sadly it doesn't move the discussion to an issue. It saves the discussion rather than the counterpart moving an issue to discussion :)