Ask HN: Why doesn't GitHub allow issues to be deleted?

5 points by rymohr 7y ago ↗ HN

Is it an ethical decision or a technical one? Surprised they make no mention of it in their docs on managing disruptive comments.

https://help.github.com/articles/managing-disruptive-comments/

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elmerfud 7y ago ↗

Probably more of an ITIL mindset. They should never be deleted, because this would be as if they never existed, but instead closed with an appropriate status.

It kind of trusts that people will generally do the right thing. I imagine they have a way to deal with issue abuse if you're seeing that happen.

DanBC 7y ago ↗

It's a great question. I saw this earlier, and it's the kind of thing that people need to be able to delete.

"What good is this shit if it can't even recognize level.dat?"

https://github.com/mrkite/minutor/issues/94