GitHub New Issue template appears empty / current template is deprecated

[Avasam]

With the new GitHub issue view,

this is what I get when creating a new issue:

Likely related to the fact that the current template is deprecated

(I made sure to disable Refined GitHub extension in case that was messing with it)

[MichaReiser]

Thanks. I didn't know we had an issue template 😆

[InSyncWithFoo]

The new YAML-based format has one minor problem:

• Each issue template must have a body of "form items". These items define how the issue is rendered.
• Each form item must be of one of the following types: checkboxes, dropdown, input, markdown, textarea. All of these, except for markdown, require that a label attribute be defined. The value of this attribute is then used as a header.
• The body must contain at least one non-markdown block. This means, even for the simplest of issues, an extraneous header will be added.

On the positive side, the form looks quite nice:

By default (no user modifications), the new issue will be created with the following Markdown content:

### This is an input

_No response_

### These are a couple of checkboxes

- [ ] Option 1
- [ ] Option 2

### This is a dropdown menu

None

### This is a multiline textarea

Default value

[MichaReiser]

I posted in the feedback discussion to understand if removing support for the legacy issue templates is intentional or not.