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Github: templates
The Issue templates & Pull request templates will at the very least make labeling easier.
Of course it depends on the specific templates used but in many cases where I saw gh templates they seemed to be a tool of the dark side of the force (personal opinion) .. e.g. they ask people to go through a (in many cases unnecessary and irrelevant) process before submitting their idea, question or bug-report, i.e. they take away freedom and discourage contributions and have very little benefits.
Of course it depends on the specific templates used but in many cases where I saw gh templates they seemed to be a tool of the dark side of the force (personal opinion) .. e.g. they ask people to go through a (in many cases unnecessary and irrelevant) process before submitting their idea, question or bug-report, i.e. they take away freedom and discourage contributions and have very little benefits.
I agree with some of this. The templates can be really bad sometimes, but they are very customizable. ie, here is what each could look like.
- Bug report: (applies
bug?label) - adds "link any relevant messages if applicable" at the bottom - Feat. request: (applies the FR label) - Ask what part of the project it applies to (with 'not sure' as an option)
- Generic issue: Acts like a normal issue
- Question - applies the question label, and has a section for relevant links.
I agree, they can be a barrier to contributing and are used as a way to deflect issues.
But in my experience as the project becomes more mainstream users do need to be told that a good bug report has "what did you do? what did you expect to happen? what actually happened?" parts
I think that it can be a good idea if the template does not add a lot of required fields. As those ones that are mandatory (in case of a bug for example; which is the and the details if needed to reproduce it) will really help to make those Issues efficient & useful.
