Updates to Issues Possible Today?

[brianjking]

https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/new

[aensley]

I was wondering what new update you were pointing out until I clicked on the link. The template is preloaded. Nice! I certainly hope this is coming to everyone soon!

[aensley]

Looks like it's coming from this file: https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/issue_template.md

[brianjking]

@aensley Yeah, it links out to this template for the issue body: https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/issue_template.md

Also, above the title you can see a link to the contributing page https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

[aensley]

The link to the contributing file has been there as long as I've been using GH. The pre-loaded template is new to me though. Testing it out on my repo right now.

[aensley]

It works on my repo! Awesome!

[brianjking]

@aensley Did you just create a issue_template.md file at the root of your repo and it automatically inserts this?

[aensley]

Yes. Exactly. I'd give you a link, but it's a private repo.

[brianjking]

@aensley I can confirm it's working for me also! Cool!

Yeah, totally gapped about the contributing link always being there.

[looterz]

This is awesome!

[joshmanders]

Great news!

[tikotzky]

The issue template in that repo was originally created in Jan 2013.

Did this functionality exist the whole time?

[joshmanders]

Some plugins and that exist.

One thing I noticed is it uses issue_template.md for the source of it. I'd much rather have a setting page on the repo to set the markdown for it manually, I don't want a bunch of github specific files mucking up my repos.

[kentcdodds]

I'd much rather have a setting page on the repo to set the markdown for it manually, I don't want a bunch of github specific files mucking up my repos.

Agreed, but this is nice to have.

[joshmanders]

Indeed it is. I'll welcome it with open arms.

[josegonzalez]

Doesn't affect mobile web maybe?

[bfontaine]

I'd much rather have a setting page on the repo to set the markdown for it manually, I don't want a bunch of github specific files mucking up my repos.

The issue with that is you couldn’t make PR to fix issues in the issue template itself.

[brianjking]

@joshmanders Yeah, I agree. However, this is a great addition (or potentially there the whole time without any documentation).

I'm not sure how it will impact things like Sphinx-Doc or Jekyll sites either having this random Markdown document in the root of the repo.

[brianjking]

@josegonzalez It doesn't work with Chrome on my Nexus 6P or ForkHub on Android. 😦

Either way, it's a start. 👍

[joshmanders]

@bfontaine You have a valid point there.

@brianjking the repo shown in this issue has had the issue_template.md file since 2013. I assume it's part of a browser plugin or something that pre-fills in the issue with the contents for you if you have the plugin installed.

[Rican7]

@brianjking I'm so curious... how did you find out about this? Just went to create an issue on a repo and found the feature by accident?

[svenluijten]

@joshmanders I don't have any extension installed, tested in incognito as well. It seems to work for me.

[KellerFuchs]

@joshmanders It's not a browser plugin: works for me on Tor Browser 5.5alpha with JS enabled (and no extra plugins)

[josegonzalez]

@brianjking for sure :)

[joshmanders]

@svenluijten & @KellerFuchs I never said this was a plugin, I was stating the issues_template.md from the owncloud/core repo is probably an artifact from such a plugin used by a member of the team there and GitHub just so happened to set that file as the trigger.

[nobso]

This works! Thanks.

[orliesaurus]

This is really sick - thanks for listening!

[PVince81]

If this turns out to be something that has been there the whole time without any documentation written about it...

ownCloud had that file since a very long time ago. We just discovered today when clicking on "New issue" that Github started using it. Could be luck that it was named that way already 😄

[aensley]

My guess is that "GitHub is listening," saw this in the wild via a third-party, and integrated it natively using the same naming convention.

[captn3m0]

The owncloud issue_template.md file has been there for 3 years: #1160 is the PR that added it and @LukasReschke doesn't mention any existing plugin there. Just a lucky fluke, I guess.

[joshmanders]

@captn3m0 Interesting, was this a previous feature of github in 2013 and they removed it?

[LukasReschke]

The owncloud issue_template.md file has been there for 3 years: #1160 is the PR that added it and @LukasReschke doesn't mention any existing plugin there. Just a lucky fluke, I guess.

This is correct. As far I am aware there is no plugin support for this and we have just used to link to this from our contributing.md file. (which was actually nearly always ignored 🙈)

As @PVince81 in #125 (comment) stated we discovered this today randomly while filing an issue. (see also HN)

@captn3m0 Interesting, was this a previous feature of github in 2013 and they removed it?

No.

[joshmanders]

@LukasReschke sorry your HN article didn't get any traction. :(

[LukasReschke]

@LukasReschke sorry your HN article didn't get any traction. :(

There's worse than that 😉 Happy to have this feature officially supported at least after having asked GitHub support like 1000 times for it 😄

[svenluijten]

Guess it's official now 😉 https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-templates

[fommil]

this is really fantastic. It'd be even better if new tickets opened in Preview mode so our lovely formatting was preserved 😄