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Answer: Issues can be used to keep track of bugs, enhancements, or other requests. People with read access can create an issue in a repository where issues are enabled. (S2)

Organizing issues

• You can add metadata to your issues, including issue types, labels and milestones to organize your issues. (S1)
• You can define blocking relationships between issues using issue dependencies, which identify issues that are blocked by, or blocking, other work. (S1)
• Projects is strongly integrated with issues: all your issue metadata is available in your projects, so you can create views and filters to represent your work. (S1)
• To help contributors open meaningful issues that provide the information that you need, you can use issue forms and issue templates. (S1)
• When a conversation in an issue is better suited for a discussion, you can convert the issue to a discussion. (S1)

Creating one

• Issues can be created in a variety of ways, so you can choose the most convenient method for your workflow. (S2)
• Repository administrators can disable issues for a repository. (S2)
• If the type of issue you'd like to open isn't included in the available options, click Open a blank issue. (S2)
• If you're a project maintainer, you can assign the issue to someone, add it to a project, associate it with a milestone, set the issue type, or apply a label. (S2)
• When you open an issue from a comment, the issue contains a snippet showing where the comment was originally posted. (S2)

Claims

• id: C1 claim: Issues track bugs, enhancements, or other requests. source: S2 evidence: "Issues can be used to keep track of bugs, enhancements, or other requests."
• id: C2 claim: People with read access can create issues where enabled. source: S2 evidence: "People with read access can create an issue in a repository where issues are enabled."
• id: C3 claim: Issue dependencies define blocking relationships. source: S1 evidence: "You can define blocking relationships between issues using issue dependencies."
• id: C4 claim: Issues can be converted to discussions. source: S1 evidence: "you can convert the issue to a discussion."

Sources

• [S1] About issues - GitHub Docs. GitHub Docs. https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/about-issues . License: CC BY 4.0 (github/docs). Accessed 2026-11-04.
• [S2] Creating an issue - GitHub Docs. GitHub Docs. https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/creating-an-issue . License: CC BY 4.0 (github/docs). Accessed 2026-11-04.

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  author = {{iinventedlight}},
  title = {{GitHub Issues: tracking work and creating an issue}},
  howpublished = {iinventedlight Library},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-11-04},
  url = {https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/github-issues/},
  note = {Permanent ID iil:note:j0syjjr3. License: CC-BY-4.0.},
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