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Explain how to convert a discussion to an issue

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Explain how to convert a discussion to an issue

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- [Timothy] Anyway, the exam is asking us here, all right, well you mentioned that discussions are for more open-ended stuff. How do you actually turn a discussion into an issue? Well, again, the use case is tracking actionable items that arise during these longer running, more open conversations, making it easier for you and your team to follow up with concrete tasks. Very simple as that. And let me bring out my tools, you know? We are looking at, can we tell, I intentionally cropped my screenshot here to force you to look at the UI and try to get your bearings, what's going on? I'm actually a little bit confused myself. I'm thinking that this is a new issue. But discussed and basically I'm showing you the mark down here that we absolutely can just grab the URL of a particular discussion page. Now, if you're newer to software development and newer to REST APIs and how they work, GitHub, their API is so intelligently designed, a lot of times you can infer what the correct URI path is…

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