Ability to communicate status of an issue

Problem to solve

Communicate status of an issue clearly, to avoid user go through each comment.

Further details

When discussions on issues like "Feature Requests" become really long, it is not efficient for a contributor, user to find the *conclusion *of the discussions.

Example: Create dark application theme In such discussions, the readers, contributors who chime in later don't know the status of the feature request. In this specific discussion a designer had to reply with comment and reference the earlier comment. image

Proposal

This can be executed in 2 ways:

Use Labels

  1. A boring solution could be: Using Labels as statuses for feature requests. "On Hold", "Need Information", "In Progress" "Closed". I am not certain of the implications of this, this could probably cause chaos.

Pin Comment Feature

  1. Pin Comment: The Owner could pin a comment and it would always be shown below the issue description. So user's don't have to scroll through. This Pin comment could (assumption) also help in non-feature issue comments, for the issues have lengthy discussions.

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Not sure of ways to measure this, open to inputs.

Links / references

UserVoice - Showing statuses of feature requests

UserEcho communicating status of requests:

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