Using multiple issue templates with a repository

[RichardLitt]

GitHub Issue Templates are great, but they are somewhat misnamed: you can't have multiple templates, but only a single template which automatically loads. This template inevitably fails to deal with all possible open issues. For instance, questions are not the same as bug reports.

Short of including a line in a template saying Delete this template if it does not apply, are there other strategies to working with repositories which need multiple types of issue templates? Is this problem easily abstracted, and can it thus be streamlined?

This is an open question.

[hackergrrl]

This is way way bigger scoped, but having an open source github would definitely make this much more doable! As long as GH is closed these problems are going to keep on coming up.

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On August 4, 2017 7:12:38 AM PDT, Richard Littauer ***@***.***> wrote: [GitHub Issue Templates](https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-templates) are great, but they are somewhat misnamed: you can't have multiple templates, but only a single template which automatically loads. This template inevitably fails to deal with all possible open issues. For instance, questions are not the same as bug reports. Short of including a line in a template saying `Delete this template if it does not apply`, are there other strategies to working with repositories which need multiple types of issue templates? Is this problem easily abstracted, and can it thus be streamlined? This is an open question. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #9

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[RichardLitt]

Completely out of scope. 🔭

GitLab would be useful for that. But a better way of framing it might be this: given constraints on a form, how does one most effectively sidestep them?

[SebastianJL]

Why is this out of scope? A simple button "use template" in the issue creation would be enough. This would be really helpful.

[RichardLitt]

Why is this out of scope? A simple button "use template" in the issue creation would be enough. This would be really helpful.

Because I don't have access to GitHub's codebase. It's not a solution if I can't use it. :/

[liuderchi]

@RichardLitt I built a bot for generating markdown templates for different scenarios
(issue report, feature request ...) and hopefully can solve this issue.

https://github.com/apps/template

Any feedback or issues about this bot are welcomed : ]

[RichardLitt]

Pretty cool, @liuderchi! Can I make my own templates? It isn't clear from the documentation.

[liuderchi]

@RichardLitt No we can not use personal templates.
Now the template is static.

Good news is custom-template is WIP and hopefully will be shipped in next release.

[zupo]

@liuderchi: where did you hear that "custom-template is WIP"?

[liuderchi]

@zupo I was talking about the Bot App Template I have been developing. Sorry for the misleading comment.

Template generates markdown by simple commands,
which is now alpha and lack of support for custom templates.

Custom templates feature now is almost done and I am updating the docs for it.

[zupo]

Ah ok, thanks!

[netzulo]

then we will need to wait ... :(