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Creating issue templates

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Creating issue templates

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- Issue templates are a great way to help people get started submitting things like bug reports, feature requests, and more. You can find them by scrolling in the General settings under the Project settings and looking for the Feature section. Then, you can click on set up templates and choose one from the list. You can choose either a bug report, a feature request, or a custom template. These are markdown files that are stored in your repository and can be customized. Let's go ahead and add a feature request template. We'll start with a bug request template, which has a lot of common text that you may want to use. You can add assignees if there are people that you want to process these by default. There's also a way to add labels if you want to. Notice that if you go back to the Code section, there's a new GitHub folder created for you if you didn't have one before, as well as an ISSUES_TEMPLATES folder. There's even a…

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