feat: auto-generate issue in Valhalla repo with route/isochrone URL

[nilsnolde]

@kevinkreiser mentioned this idea: add a button to the web app which lets users auto-generate an issue on github, with the github bot user. it auto-fills the URL of the problem route/isochrone and lets the user add a comment to describe what's wrong in their view. the hope is that it's gonna lower the barrier for people to submit problems.

hmpf, of course the gh bot user also needs auth, bcs it's a write operation. makes total sense 😅 anyways, we could do a tiny github app which handles auth.

if that turns out to be awfully noisy, we can re-think that approach ;)

[nilsnolde]

yeah, never mind, not really possible without a custom backend (not happening). the light version would be to pre-fill the issue and let the user push the "Create issue" button in the browser. that way we still lose all the people who don't have a github account..

[kevinkreiser]

well to be fair we would lose them anyway because we are already talking about them submitting issues to valhalla/valhalla complaining about something which requires a github account anyway. so id say not different at all in that regard

[nilsnolde]

well, it could be done in a way that people wouldn't need a github account themselves. it's just beyond that level of effort and future maintenance of a server software, that's not quite worth it for the potential benefit it'd give us. that's my opinion at least. could've maybe been a nice little gsoc project :D I wish it was multiple times per year, so we could submit small-ish tool proposals.

[kevinkreiser]

yep i agree not worth the effort, adding the button and prepopulating the issue is what i had in mind as it at least formalizes the contract and could hopefully avoid some circular discussions

[nilsnolde]

🤞

[nilsnolde]

actually, there's a lot to be said about getting (voluntary) structured feedback on routes and collect those (without a gh account). maybe once we have a usable mobile app 😆