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Fix to improve security around creation of pull requests in public repos

We've shipped a small fix to improve security around creation of pull requests in public repos.

Prior to this fix and under very specific conditions, a user could create a pull request in a public repo even though they did not have push access to either the base or head branch and were not a member of the repo's organization. Often these pull requests were created by mistake and quickly closed, but could still trigger unexpected GitHub Actions or other CI jobs.

This fix has no impact on the common open source workflow where a user forks a public repo, makes a change in their fork, and then proposes their change using a pull request. This fix also has no impact on pull requests already created.

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Marking a threaded comment as the answer

When we introduced GitHub Discussions in 2020, we allowed users to mark an answer to a question in the "Q&A" Discussions category. As the feature began getting more usage, we noticed that often, the real answer to a question may live in a reply to an answer. Today, we are introducing the ability for users to mark a threaded reply as the answer to a question.

All replies will now have a button to allow the questioner to mark them as the answer.
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Marking the reply as the answer highlights it and makes it clear to the reader where the real answer to the original question lives.
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This feature improves the accuracy of marked answers, while also reducing the burden on users to duplicate their text to get their answer marked as correct.

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Expanding the Triage role and introducing new options for how content is reported

We're excited to share four improvements that we think will improve how moderators maintain their communities. Our goal with thesse improvements is to help moderators of large communities distribute the workload of maintaining healthy discourse. The improvements we're proposing are:

  1. Allowing users with the triage role to make the following changes (only within Discussions):
    a. Move Discussions to a different cateogory
    b. Convert Issues to Discussions in bulk
    c. Hide Discussion comments
    d. Edit and delete Discussion comments
  2. Allowing users with the triage role to report content. (Impacts Discussions, Issues, PRs).
  3. Let prior contributors be able to report content by default in new repos. (Impacts Discussions, Issues, PRs).
  4. Maintainers can choose to let ALL users report content. (Impacts Discussions, Issues, PRs).

The first two changes to the triage role impact existing users with that permission. These changes slightly increase the scope of what the role can do – but we believe that these changes are consistent with how the majority of maintainers are trying to use the triage role.

Changes 3 and 4 impact who can report content by default. Moving forward, new repos will get a better default (letting prior contributors report content), but ultimately, we're putting the power in the hands of maintainers to decide how best to run their communities.

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