Hi Ben! On Mi, 05 Okt 2016, Ben Fritz wrote:
> We are getting a lot of issues created on GitHub to ask questions instead of > reporting an issue. > > I think it is not clear enough where to get help, from the GitHub page. More > and more people are apparently finding Vim from its GitHub page these days. > > Right now when you create a new issue, a banner pops up saying only "Please > review the guidelines for contributing to this repository." The linked > guidelines don't really make it clear how to ask for help, they just talk > about how to report issues. > > I assume we have control over that banner's content. What about explicitly > adding text to this banner like, "Please only put bug reports in this issue > tracker, and use the vim_use mailing list to ask questions." > > Also, where to get help should be documented in the main README.md file > displayed on the project home page, otherwise people will just assume it's > the issue tracker. Perhaps add it more explicitly to the contribution > guidelines as well. We could also use add a ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md file which is used as template when new issues are created. Ideas for some content? May be we can take some inspiration from other projects, e.g. git for windows: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Issue-reporting-guidelines Best, Christian -- Immer hart, das ist hart. Aber immer weich, das ist härter. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
