Include pymanager in issue template menu

[johnslavik]

This needs discussion, and, in this specific case, I think that the CPython issue tracker is a place more suitable for it than the discourse website.

Sometimes people don't know that the tracker for pymanager issues exists -- I loosely propose we add an entry at the bottom of the issue template picker to direct future issue reporters that there is such a tracker, and that it concerns installs on Windows:

I don't have hard feelings with this idea -- there haven't been a lot of confused issues opened, I think I've seen a few only -- but I thought you'd know better whether this makes sense or not. :-)

Please don't hesitate to close immediately and skip pending if you don't like it.

cc @zooba

Linked PRs

• gh-142170: Add pymanager link to issue template menu #142199

[johnslavik]

CC @ZeroIntensity I think this one could get the infra label -- not sure though, wdyt?

[ZeroIntensity]

infra makes sense to me. I'm not aware of any precedent here.

[zooba]

The proposal makes sense to me. I assume I don't get automatically notified of PyManager issues filed here (at least until the triagers tag them), and I certainly don't spend my time searching for them. Having a template for installation issues would at least get them automatically tagged in a useful way, and they're easy to transfer to the other repo.

[hugovk]

We can have the template add the OS-windows label (and topic-installation), and perhaps a new PyManager one, and you can subscribe to labels to be pinged.

[johnslavik]

Thank you for the prompt feedback!

What I've meant with my proposal is a button that is just an external link that leads directly to pymanager's issue tracker, so that the pymanager issues land directly in the pymanager repository, and not here.

However, I see that you're considering a new issue template in this repository instead -- would you prefer a new custom template in this repository, and some pymanager issues landing here that could maybe be transferred to pymanager, or the spoken link, like in the picture?

[johnslavik]

Side note, a new pymanager-related issue has just appeared in CPython as I've been writing this -- python/pymanager#227 ;)

[zooba]

Can we have an external link there? That would be fine too. I don't know my way around the templates like others do.

[StanFromIreland]

We can, one just has to add an entry to the config.yml.