Yeah contributing.md doesn't get read much, or it gets skimmed over. Issue templates seem to MOSTLY fix the problem, so we wrote a bot that sticks in some cann

Yeah contributing.md doesn't get read much, or it gets skimmed over. Issue templates seem to MOSTLY fix the problem, so we wrote a bot that sticks in some canned questions when it looks like your bug didn't follow the template. People recoiled to the bot for months but new users were totally fine with it. I really wish GitHub had some sort of optional facility for a stock template for the "bug" field, as it would save collective years of people's combined lives. It would just need to populate some text in the issue box by default. Call this ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md if you want, etc. Various third party attempts to do this - like use this bug page instead of github's new issue form, don't really work as the one NICE thing about github is that everyone knows how every project sort of works. Sort of. Which is also the one nice thing as they don't join the lists or really understand how various projects really really work :)