Change locking activity on inactive issues

[tidymodels]

Change locking activity on inactive issues

[juliasilge]

Ah, we can link to the locked issues and have the link show up because we are "collaborators" on each repo but other contributors or users cannot.

I don't believe there is a way to lock the issues and still allow external folks to link to it with a visible reference (I guess that is kind of the point) so maybe we should update our wording on the locked issues? I do think it may still be useful direction for folks to put in a link to something they want further addressed, even if a reference isn't autogenerated. 🤔

[brshallo]

Posted idea for being able to lock issues and still accrue references: community/community#4850 (no response). Perhaps I just prefer being able to occasionally pollute your closed issues at my leisure 😅.

Wording is fine. Maybe could change:

"and link to this issue" to "and include a link to this issue"
(which might be more clear to user are not "linking" the issue via github's automatic cross-linking, but simply including a URL on the new issue, but probably doesn't matter either way... I could do a PR, otherwise could close.)

[brshallo]

I think why I like the idea of allowing references on closed issues is related to the practices I try to follow regarding cross-posting:

🔗 Always link to your other posts, and update everywhere with any solutions

-Rstudio Community FAQ: Is it OK to Cross-Post

(Though of course the practices for help sites are different from those for github.)

[juliasilge]

I am very similar and like to cross-link a lot so I can easily find things later. For now, we do want to keep the lock files functioning as they are (not any great alternatives at this moment) and I think there is still value in encouraging people to add a link to something they want to see further addressed, even if there is no autogenerated, visible link created on both sides.

I do think your suggested wording is a bit better and more clear; let's at least update that here and then we can eventually get it updated on all the repos.