I mean, there are a number of people calling for something like this in the big topic. I’m not suggesting making a decision, but simply making that a separate linked topic. (See Thoughts about the earlier proposal to use Discourse for change discussions).
I’m just seeing these as particular and significnat emerging sub-topics. Ideally, I’d like to see FESCo members (in consultation with the Change Wrangler) make these calls as the discussion evolves (on this and on future proposals).
When a thread is split this way, there is a message in the original topic saying so. Links to the moved messages still work, and email replies get attached in the right place.
I can go ahead and do some of this now, but I want to make sure there’s at least some FESCo support before doing it. (It kind of is a close real-time collaboration thing.)
You (and other FESCo members) should be able to do this. To the top right of any topic in the Change Proposals category, you should see a wrench icon. That brings up a menu like this:
Choose “Select Posts…” and then you’ll see buttons appear on each reply, like this:
… when you select some, you’ll get this[1] on the side …
And the rest is straightforward.
In this case, my proposal would be to create a new topic for each identified sub-topic, explain what’s going on (with a link back to the main topic), and then move the appropriate posts there. Make sense?
The options might be slightly different as I am an admin vs. moderator — not sure if you’ll have Change Ownership ↩︎