Let people know they can vote on Issues

Summary

In Awkward, @jpivarski has a note in the docs that

You can vote for issues by adding a “thumbs up” (👍) using the “smile/pick your reaction” menu on the top-right of the issue. See the prioritized list of open issues.

where he sorts by

is:issue is:open sort:reactions-+1-desc reactions:>0 

This is really clever and we should let people know they can vote in the same way.

This is the view for pyhf

Documentation Page Link

https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward-1.0/tree/d977b04facb196a4c8584f256b36280a4e105b14#getting-help

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the Code of Conduct

[jpivarski]

I think the thing that would be needed is for GitHub to make issue voting a “first class citizen” in the sense of adding an explicit up/down arrow, as they do for Discussion questions. I think that could break through a psychological barrier. (Necessary but maybe not sufficient: people don’t up/down-vote Discussion questions much, either, or mark them as answered, as they’re encouraged to do so on StackOverflow. For the most part, GitHub Discussions are linear comments.)

Also, maybe there’s just not many people looking at the Issues that are not their own. The Issue board is something you and I look at a lot, but presumably users are only interested in the thing that breaks their own workflow, not the state of the project in general. (I’m not saying that’s bad—people are busy…)

[jpivarski]

Just to let you know, this method of issue-voting hasn’t been very fruitful in the past year since I first proposed it. Only a handful of issues have any thumbs-up, and the maximum number is 2. These might be independent of any explicit intention to vote.