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Creating a "Generic Issue" should not present the user with prompts for a bug report #7528

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jwodder opened this issue Nov 3, 2023 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #7529
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Creating a "Generic Issue" should not present the user with prompts for a bug report #7528

jwodder opened this issue Nov 3, 2023 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #7529

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jwodder commented Nov 3, 2023 •
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When I go to create an issue in this repository, the only option applicable to my use cases is to create a "Generic Issue", but the titles of the fields in the form I am directed to all assume that I'm reporting a bug; the very first field is even titled "What is the problem?". What if I'm not reporting a bug and instead am requesting a feature or (as I was just doing) suggesting ways to improve the quality of the codebase?

If I click "Generic Issue", the form I'm presented with (if I'm shown a form at all) should actually be for a generic issue (where "issue" is in the looser GitHub sense of "a thing to be worked on", not "a thing that's wrong"). The current "Generic Issue" setup should instead be used for a "Report a Bug" option on the "New Issue" page.
yarikoptic added a commit to yarikoptic/datalad that referenced this issue Nov 3, 2023
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Generic issue -> Report a Bug template
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- as reported by @jwodder in datalad#7528 the form is really about reporting
  a bug, not just opening some generic issue
- we also have "Report a Security Vulnerability" internal github
  issue reporting we enabled in response to datalad#7369;  Taken together with
  default "Open a blank issue", we would make it consistent in being
  imperative
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