Add reference field when Minting/Burning tokens

[lkngtn]

Note: this has been closed to be tracked in the "wishlist for future upgrades".

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The token manager is commonly being used to manage group membership, so the action to mint a token or burn a token is equivalent to membership proposal. These proposals typically require approval via a voting app, but there is very little context provided to voters when evaluating a decision other that the tokens and address.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be useful for users to provide a reference (like the finance app has) that would allow users to provide information to the voting app about the purpose/intention of the proposal and to include a link to an external source for discussion (like a github or forum post).

Describe alternatives you've considered
I know there is plans to add discussions to apps like voting which would be also very useful and perhaps a better long term solution. However, such a solution would be complementary to the reference approach, and so I don't see it as an either or type of decision.

Additional context
This functionality is a requirement for an upcoming dao launch, so there is some urgency to this request.

[john-light]

I've been thinking about "proposal metadata" for a while since we've had to kind of hack our way around this for AGPs.

One solution I've thought of is that for any action that becomes a vote (or for any vote created directly in the Voting app) users are put into a flow to fill out metadata about the proposal before submitting the transaction to create the vote.

The flow would be like:

Action -> You can't do that directly, but you can create a vote -> Fill out metadata -> create vote

Then the user would have the option to fill out a few fields of metadata like:

• Title
• Description
• URL
• Attachments (insert IPFS hash)

The metadata itself doesn't need to be stored on-chain but could be put in a text file that is stored on IPFS and only the IPFS hash of the text file is stored in the vote transaction on chain.

[sohkai]

@john-light A flow of this sort would be possible with #452, along with a bit of structured information from apps that describe what their forwarding inputs are.

[sohkai]

Closing; we will evaluate this for new contract changes.