Hi Ben,

I agree.

In general, I too do see that this artificial separation is adding little/no 
value.
This would also simplify a bit the build scripts: instead of having to parse 
the PR name to get the issue number, we could just use the available PR number.

> El 14 jul 2019, a las 10:30, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> escribió:
> 
> Some improvements are often discovered, fixed and submitted all in the same 
> moment - prior to their being an existing Issue logged.
> When we were using MCZ files that had no facility to hang a discussion on 
> them,
> it was a good policy that **every** contribution required an Issue as a place 
> for discussion and approval.
> However we are now using Pull Requests that provide such a facility for 
> discussion and approval. 
> 
> There is not much difference between an "Issue" and a "PR" - indeed their 
> index numbers are interleaved.
> So when we already have a PR ready to go, it seems redundant to first create 
> an matching Issue just to have something to close.
> It seems particularly redundant when an Issues is created and closed within 
> the same hour a PR is submitted and unnecessary double-handling.
> 
> So I propose that pre-fixed-issues that a submitted with a code contribution 
> require a PR-only
> and "Issues" are left for reports without an immediate fix that require 
> longer term visibility.
> 
> cheers -ben
> 
> P.S. Thank you Torsten for your stream of small fixes.  
> 
> 
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