Links between Tickets and Discussions are not shown (in the opposite direction)

[RubenKelevra]

When I link a ticket inside another ticket, I'll get a cross-link - (aka pingback) that this happened in the other ticket.

It would be super useful if this could also happen between discussions and tickets. When I mention a discussion in a ticket, I like see a small hint that this happened in the discussion as well as the other way around.

[lesteve]

I agree that automated back-links (not sure what the exact technical term is) is useful to find related issues and get a better sense of the general context. I feel like not being able to find related Discussions is currently missing in Github Discussions.

I seem to remember at one point I found a Discussion that was saying that an alternative design was under consideration for Github Discussions (maybe a related issues tab in the right hand-side panel) but I can not find it anymore ... I do agree that sometimes automated back-links can be a bit noisy or hard to find if they are spread over a long issue.

Just to try to be as clear as possible here is an example of what I mean by automated back-links:

• Stratified GroupKFold scikit-learn/scikit-learn#13621 (comment) in issue #13621 links to issue #9413
  
• in issue #9413 an automated link is generated
  

[corneliusroemer]

Back-links are the major thing I miss from discussions when compared to issues. It really makes discussions feel more isolated and less connected.

[marcindulak]

I believe this was already requested in https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/2971

[michael-hawker]

2971 has more discussion and upvotes/thumbs, so it's weird to see it closed over this one, generally you want to keep the oldest issue open for tracking. This one should be closed as the duplicate.

[irh]

#2971 was closed in favour of this discussion, so I'll say again here that automatic links between Discussions and Issues/PRs would be very helpful, it still feels strange to have discussions disconnected from the rest of the system.

[oriolpiera]

Hi folks,

A new one in this party.

I already open a discussion (because not related discussion appeared) and inmediatly closed it as seen both previous discussions and the weird thing to close the one-month oldest one.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/125524

I take a seat.