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Sunlighter here (though this isn't my project). This was mostly done to test our IFTTT channel (https://ifttt.com/sunlightfoundation), so I think we were limited in terms of what actions we could trigger. We've talked about doing a non-IFTTT version that would extend the metaphor way further, but haven't (yet) actually made it happen.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying, are you implying that once a feature (law) has been pushed into production (signed off) there can be no issues filed against such feature?

For this analogy, a bill should actually be a pull request and a signed law is a merged request. I think the problem is that an 'issue' should be a proposal, a bug report, etc. In this case, none of the 'issues' being created are intended to be closed.

It's not intended to provide a medium of discussion (at least pre-vote) - it's intended to be a directory of laws. I would assume Issues is only used for IFTTT compatibility.