Give repo owners the ability to "Approve" an answer to an Issue (just like on StackOverflow)

[brock]

• Issue opens with a question
• Below the question is a "promoted" answer that is designated as the Approved Solution
• The original ordering of all responses should stay in tact, so that everyone can see where and when the Approved Solution originally appeared.
• Consider making the "Approved Solution" a simple link, with the same text across all repositories. IE: you don't actually duplicate the solution in a box below the question, you simply link to the Approved Solution. It might look like this:
  • "There is a response to this issue that has been marked as a Solution."

You could even go crazy and give both the repo owner and the person asking the Issue permission to mark it as approved. Like this:

• "There is a response to this issue that has been marked as a Solution."
  • The owner of this repo marked this response as the solution
  • The person that opened the issued marked this other response as the solution

[brock]

Inspiration for this idea was birthed here. In this example, the issue was opened in September of 2014. It was closed then re-opened. It is now closed. As of today (May 2016) there is still activity as recent as 8 hours ago.

Think how much time is lost scrubbing through this issue when an answer might be known by both parties.

[jwerre]

+1

[cirosantilli]

@jwerre please use the new +1 button feature instead of comments to avoid notifying people and have an automated upvote count ;-)

[cirosantilli]

Would also help: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/601

[Prinzhorn]

This is such an essential and basic feature. How often do you browse a closed issue (for example a feature request) and have to skim through 154 comments to find out:

1. if is has been implemented or not
2. In which release
3. What the API looks like

I have to do this all the time. Instead of just marking a comment as the solution I propose that closing an issue also prompts for an optional summary/reason, which is then displayed at the top. It could answer all the questions above and also summarize the process that lead to it.