There is no need to delete the current one. Just rename it to “Discussion”.
I never suggested that feature requests continue to be made on the user forum. But a discussion category would be an appropriate place for users to flesh out their ideas with other users before making the formal FR on GitHub.
It’s not getting deleted, it’s getting archived. You’ve made your point, please move on.
What I see happening in the real world (not a devs dream of how it will happen) is that not very many users will add FR’s to github and instead we will see a ton of forum posts like “It sure would be nice if we could have…” in either the config or share your projects sections. And then others will need to point them to github and explain how to use it. then that user might take the time to go there and post the FR that no one else will ever see because normal users never browse GH to look for FR’s to vote for. I know I will never just browse GH for FR’s. But maybe that’s just me.
if the devs are looking for a sure fire way to minimize users interaction with and promotion of FR’s then this is exactly how it should be done.
I can’t say that I know for sure that’s going to be the end result but I really can’t see it going much differently than that.
Yeah, I’m no stranger to GitHub yet when I tried to post a FR this morning it failed because GitHub:
Not a good start.
Yeah HA have implemented some AI detection on the repository and it is not good at all. In fact it’s bad enough that it should probably be turned off.
Odd, I don’t see your duplicate FR. The duplicate detection only occurs after the FR is created by the bot. I only see your single FR, which doesn’t have the dupe bot. Also, the bot didn’t say anything about language (it didn’t even reply on your FR).
Reply to the bot with what it got wrong to train it. Also, as a member (basically a moderator), you’re able to delete the comment and remove the duplicate label. I find it no better or worse than people here marking things as duplicates.
Oh I didn’t know about emails. I’d ignore them, the bot didn’t reply on the FR, so it’s good to go
I just realised there is another problem with this overall approach: there is various threads all over the forum (outside the FR section, e.g. here: Preserve the history of certain sensors for a longer period of time - #2 by 123 ) that mention a feature request and link to it. The problem: with the current plan to archive the FR section in the forum, there is no way to add a link at the end of the thread to the github copy that someone might have created for it. So when people stumble over a FR in the forum somewhere, they have no obvious way of seeing that it “lives on” in github. And to find it, their only option is to use the github search and be lucky.
Is there an option to allow adding a github link to feature requests in the forum that get copied over?
