[ENH] Adding active discussions/enhancements and help wanted section to readme

[franklin-feingold]

Added an active discussions/enhancements and help wanted section to readme. This can help orient/focus the community around what is being actively discussed and where help is needed.

I captured a few for each to give an idea of how it may look. Can be expanded upon.

Note: the   is for spacing

[sappelhoff]

I think rather than advertising issues where "help is wanted" on the README, we should:

• make more use of the "Help wanted" tag on the issues page
• "pin" issues --> we can pin up to three dominant issues

If you are concerned that the issues do not gain enough visibility, I would suggest having a brief section in the README referring to the issues page: What it is and how we use it (not only for bugs, but also discussions).

I would not add the Help Wanted and Active discussions and enhancements sections to the README: The topics listed there naturally fluctuate in terms of importance and being recently discussed or not --> the issues page is more dynamic and designed for that setup.

[franklin-feingold]

make more use of the "Help wanted" tag on the issues page

How would you propose we do this? We have help wanted tags, but currently little to no activity on those threads.

"pin" issues --> we can pin up to three dominant issues

This could perhaps work, but would these pined issues be active discussions or help wanted or both? How would these be easily differentiated, probably a tag?

having a brief section in the README referring to the issues page: What it is and how we use it (not only for bugs, but also discussions).

Ok. we can try this and evaluate.

Overall, the goal of this is to reduce the barrier to contributing and quickly be able to see where the project is at and where the efforts are currently being directed toward. This can be difficult to see for newer members of the community. I think it needs to be very clear and easy to locate. The fluctuation is fine it can be updated, but we can try having a brief explanation of issues and reevaluate.