Create templates for Issues and Pull Requests

[littlewatkins]

We need to add some templates for the issues so that we can make issue creation easier.

[GarethTMorgan]

insert facepalm here I cannot implement templates because I do not have access to this repo's setting haha. @littlewatkins are you an admin/someone who can access repo settings?

[arichar6]

I think that only Paul and I are admins. Is there some way you can put a template into an md file or something, so that I can grab them from there and add them to the project?

[gracetangg]

@GarethTMorgan you should be able to create a .github folder and then put in the templates you want inside a ISSUE_TEMPLATE folder

[GarethTMorgan]

Thanks Grace! I'll check that out.

[GarethTMorgan]

@gracetangg do you know if making the .github folder a hidden folder will mess with anything?

[gracetangg]

@GarethTMorgan sorry i'm not sure about that

[GarethTMorgan]

all good, I'll do some googling 👍 also, can I have you check my work on PR #44 ? I figure that since you've done it before you would be good at catching if/where I need to make edits haha.

[arichar6]

I merged your PR #44. Now we need to think some more about what templates we should have, and how to make them more useful.

Maybe we can use some of the ideas here? Or get inspiration from some of these examples?

[arichar6]

Have any of you seen this templates site? It's in a choose-your-own-adventure style (which is fun 🎉 ), and some of the templates actually look pretty good.

Maybe we can get some ideas there?

[GarethTMorgan]

So the issue templates I pushed earlier seem to be working correctly which is great (thanks @gracetangg for the assistance 👍). Right now the current list of issue templates that I have in my head that have not already been put in is: documentation, discussion, questions, and feature requests (although "feature" could have a broader meaning that would encompass things like for issues 13, 9, and 8 which I am tactfully not pinging so as to cut down on unrelated clutter). Would love some feedback.

[padamson]

I think we need to consider some new items for the PR template:

• provide documentation
• provide unit tests
• consider providing integration tests for new features
• ensure existing and new tests pass