github: switch "what did you expect to see" and "what did you see instead" #64890
Description
Go version
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What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?
n/aWhat did you do?
Create a GitHub issue.
What did you expect to see?
In the template for filing a bug, I expect to see the question "What did you see happen?" come before "What did you expect to see?" as this better follows a chronological ordering. The former question explains how things are today, while the latter explains how things ought to be in the future.
In some issues, people put additional prose in the "what did you expect to see?" section to justify a change in behavior. However, this justification detracts from being able to understand the difference between behavior today and possible behavior in the future. With the proposed ordering, we would hopefully get issues of the form:
- What did you do?
- (explanation of the past)
- What did you see happen?
- (explanation of what happens in the present)
- What did you expect to see?
- (explanation of what might happen in the future)
- (justification for why that should happen)
What did you see instead?
The opposite ordering, which follows a non-chronological ordering.