As a discussions maintainer, you can create community resources to encourage discussions that are aligned with the overall project goal and maintain a friendly open forum for collaborators. Creating a code of conduct or contribution guidelines for collaborators to follow will help facilitate a collaborative and productive forum. For more information on creating community resources, see "[Adding a code of conduct to your project](/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-code-of-conduct-to-your-project)," and "[Setting guidelines for repository contributors](/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors)."

When a discussion yields an idea or bug that is ready to be worked on, you can create a new issue from a discussion. For more information, see "[Creating an issue](/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/creating-an-issue#creating-an-issue-from-a-discussion)."

{% ifversion fpt %}

People with read permission to a repository can create an issue from a discussion.

When you create an issue from a discussion, the contents of the discussion post will be automatically included in the issue body, and any labels will be retained. Creating an issue from a discussion does not convert the discussion to an issue or delete the existing discussion. For more information about {% data variables.product.prodname_discussions %}, see "[About discussions](/discussions/collaborating-with-your-community-using-discussions/about-discussions)."

{% data reusables.discussions.discussions-tab %}

{% data reusables.discussions.click-discussion-in-list %}

1. In the right sidebar, click {% octicon "issue-opened" aria-label="The issues icon" %} **Create issue from discussion**.


{% data reusables.repositories.type-issue-title-and-description %}

{% data reusables.repositories.assign-an-issue-as-project-maintainer %}

{% data reusables.repositories.submit-new-issue %}

{% endif %}