Delete / remove an issue completely.

[cirosantilli]

SO 93 upvotes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3081521/removing-github-issues . Seems impossible today. As pointed by CommuSoft there, might be illegal in Europe =)

E.g.: I was doing two things at the same time and created an issue on the bad repo: markdownlint/markdownlint#46

https://github.com/jdennes replied:

Thanks for the suggestion. It's only possible to edit/clear the issue content currently. However I've added a +1 to this suggestion on our internal Feature Request List.

Likely GitHub does not implement this because then the asker would be able to remove useful answers from other people (but as usual GitHub is very secretive and does not give us rationale). There are two possibilities to reduce that concern:

• allow project admins to do it only as proposed on GitLab: http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions/6584418-remove-issues-and-milestones

  This should definitely be allowed, considering that the owner can already destroy the entire repo in one go...

• allow OP to remove it if there are no answers somewhat like Stack Overflow: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that

  I don't see why not, and would solve many cases.

[LeartS]

Seconded, it would be an useful feature.
For example, I had two tabs open on two different github repos (one of which was mine) and I created an issue on the wrong one (mine), and now I have no ways to delete it even though I am both the only repo admin and the one who opened the issue.

[sashahart]

This limitation provides no way to deal with abuse/spam except to edit everything every time. It's really not okay and makes me have to disable github issues entirely. At that point I begin to question why the repo is on github if I am going to have to use a different ticket system to get around this.

[rudolf-adamkovic]

+1

[lfolco]

it's kind of crazy that this is not possible. might have to look at another ticket system?

[FichteFoll]

As pointed by CommuSoft there, might be illegal in Europe =)

Since repo owners or collaborators can already edit another user's comment (and even delete), I don't see how this could affect the decision.

[jwerre]

+1

+1, lack of ability to delete issue has contributed to my decision to look elsewhere

[TimWolla]

👍

[rfabbri]

my private personal info almost showed up on Issues by accident through faulty automated email hooks.. gave me the chills when I realized that if that happened, I would never be able to delete it except by flooding staff with desperate requests.

[jrgtt]

+1

[wmantly]

+1

[ben432rew]

+1

[iamareyes]

+1

[milovanderlinden]

+1

[elifoster]

+1