Proposal: Pin Issues

[kolaente]

I don't know if this is overkill or if there is a better solution, but i'd like to have the abililty to pin issues to have them sticking at the top of the issues page.

This could be useful for general information you don't want to put in the readme or issues everyone in the team should comment.

More Context:
I'm currently working on a project with a bunch of other people. We don't know each other, so someone opened an "introduce yourself"-issue. But now we have so many issues that this one is already on the second page, so noone recognizes it anymore and until now, only two people introduced themselves.

[sapk]

This could be implemented by a default label like pinned or on top. This would not change a lot of code and let people remove the default tag if they want. And without a sort applyed they should be display on top.

[bkcsoft]

Adding Issue Priority and being able to sort on that would make more sense to me. Anyone else?

[lunny]

@bkcsoft Yes, a priority in database column, but we could also has a button to pin it.

[daviian]

@bkcsoft @lunny The pin button has the advantage that the issues are still sorted by date and pinned issues only appear above.

[lunny]

@daviian Yes. I mean, we only need to add one column priority to implement it. We can add an order SQL before all other order

order by `priority` desc,  ...

When you pin an issue, we will set the issue's priority as max priority + 10 , and when you unpin it, we could set priority = 0

[kolaente]

@lunny i like the idea. Also priority would be a cool feature 😀 (but wouldn't this be a seperate issue?)

[BetaCat0]

I've been working on it :)

[mpeter50]

When you pin an issue, we will set the issue's priority as max priority + 10 , and when you unpin it, we could set priority = 0
// lunny

Implementing these 2 features with a single additional column may be more optimal, but this way on unpinning the priority cannot be restored to its old value.

[stuzer05]

More Context: I'm currently working on a project with a bunch of other people. We don't know each other, so someone opened an "introduce yourself"-issue. But now we have so many issues that this one is already on the second page, so noone recognizes it anymore and until now, only two people introduced themselves.

Why not use wiki for that?