Guidelines for using GitHub reactions

[javiereguiluz]

As you know, GitHub as added reactions to issues, comments and pull requests. Do you think we should decide some basic guidelines to use them?

If you agree, this would be my proposal:

• Use only :+1: or :-1: to vote for things.
• Use reactions only for Issues and PRs, not comments.
• Stop using 👍 and 👎 in comments as a voting mechanism.

Thoughts? Thanks!

[xabbuh]

I'd say let's wait some time to see how people actually use reactions. I would rather not put something more in the contribution guidelines that is not really necessary and focus on important stuff instead.

[javiereguiluz]

I wouldn't put this information in the contribution guide. And besides, few people read it 😞 The question was more about how we should use them. For example, in this PR (#6345) you voted in an empty comment and I used a reaction icon.

[xabbuh]

At least for our internal voting mechanism we would have to stick to comments until gh is able to determine core team votes from reactions.

[xabbuh]

But I agree that it would now better if people generally used reactions to support a thread instead of pushing notifications to everyone by commenting with +1.

[javiereguiluz]

That's a good point! I've added an issue in the gh tool to see what do they decide.

[javiereguiluz]

I'm closing it because at symfony-docs we don't have a problem with this at all. Few people vote on issues/PRs, so let's do nothing about this for now. Thanks!