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Issue templates bug_fix.md and improvement.md do not appear in the issue chooser #224
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.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_fix.md and .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/improvement.md start with the license comment; the YAML front matter (name, about, …) follows it. GitHub recognises the metadata only at the very beginning of the file, so neither template is offered in the issue chooser.
Checked: repository.issueTemplates (GraphQL) returns an empty list for this repository.
Fix: put the front matter first and the license comment after it, as REUSE/cr_checker accept a comment below the front matter.
Found by the Copilot review of eclipse-score/contributor_training#2, which carries both files unchanged.
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PandaeDo commentedon Oct 30, 2026
Proposed solution: delete
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_fix.mdandimprovement.mdinstead of moving their front matter.Reason: a repository that has its own
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATEfolder does not get the organisation's default issue templates fromeclipse-score/.github(GitHub Docs, Creating a default community health file: defaults are used only where the repository has no file of that type). The organisation defines Feature Request, Component Request, Product Increment, Epic, Task and Bug there, with issue types. Today this repository – and every repository created from it – shows none of them, and its own two templates are not recognised either, so its issue chooser offers no form at all.eclipse-score/score, which has no own folder, gets the organisation forms.Deleting the folder makes module_template and every new module use the organisation's forms, so they do not drift from them. Moving the front matter instead would keep two templates that duplicate Bug and Task in a weaker form and still hide the organisation's.
The pull request templates that link to these issue templates (#225) would then point to the organisation's chooser (
/issues/new/choose).fix(github): remove repository issue templates
fix(github): remove repository issue templates (eclipse-score#228)