GitHub Issues - Do you use Issue Templates?
GitHub Issues offer a great way of raising Issues within projects. However, it can be difficult to distinguish whether the Issue is a bug, feature request or just a question. GitHub Issue Templates should be used to help standardize Issues and ensure they have enough information for a developer to start work.
The templates also make it easy for people to write good quality issues, increasing the chance of getting good feedback and suggestions from users.
Let's take a look at how implementing Issue Templates can improve repository backlogs...
❌ Figure: Bad example - Issue created without a Template
✅ Figure: Good example - Issue created from a Template
✅ Figure: Good example - All the available Issue Template
For instructions on setting this up, check out:
GitHub Issue Forms
You can take this a step further by creating Issue Forms - these are awesome for non-technical people who aren't comfortable with Markdown.
Check it out on GitHub Issue Forms docs
Figure: Issue Forms make reporting bugs easy