[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Improve Github issues by modelling issues after Microsoft Powertoys repo (Issue #4788)

[Andy Allan]

> There are 541 open issues. 
> [...]
> The fisrt 2 are probably not much effort on the maintainers of this repo.

So anything to do with 500+ issues **is** a lot of effort for the maintainers. And I think our time is, right now, better spent on dealing with the 130+ open pull requests. If, for example, I stopped reviewing pull requests for the next 3 months (~10 days volunteer time, 50+ issues per day?) and just tagged and categorised issues, then I would be three months down the line with no PR reviews done but with more tags on issues. Which I don't think will make it faster to do the PRs in future, so it's hard to see how I would make up for lost time.

Tagging issues is useful, yes, but it's not a priority for someone who could be doing PR reviews, in my opinion.

We have other (non-maintainer) contributors who have rights to tag issues, we have the "bug" label (and several others), and we frequently have contributors who spot duplicate issues and these get resolved. If you want to join that team, you would be very welcome.

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