openpolitics
Create ideas in the groupthink UI
It's a bit jarring to be kicked into the GitHub UI when creating ideas.
The 'Ideas' feature is causing some confusion on the Eastleigh manifesto (one user opened two ideas as well as a proposal, all for the same thing) and keeping people in the groupthink UI might also provide more opportunity for clarifying how ideas and proposals differ.
It's probably the first time it's seeing significant use, honestly. When most work was happening in the original manifesto, that feature didn't exist. So I'm not surprised it's non-obvious. Perhaps "ideas" is the wrong naming anyway, it's more of a todo list? Hmm.
"significant use" might be a bit of a stretch, but probably a less technical audience so far. I like having something to list things it might be worth investigating/adding to the manifesto, both as a place to provide a bit of inspiration for new people, and somewhere quick and easy for people to contribute without worrying too much about 'getting it right'. I think part of the problem is that Ideas, are more like suggestions, but suggestion is also used to describe proposals. Naming is hard though and I'm not sure what the answer is. (Getting rid of ideas would make it much simpler but that seems a bit drastic!)
I've just remembered how thin a wrapper around issues the ideas feature is - it's all loaded live from GitHub, there's basically nothing stored in groupthink itself. This really was a quick and dirty hack :)
One might say it was a very efficient implementation rather than a quick and dirty hack :)