[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Use Github ISSUE_TEMPLATE feature (#2063)

[Matthew Brush]

I'm not sure whether the prerequisites are better in the ISSUE_TEMPLATE (after all, people only have to skim them and delete the whole section) or the CONTRIBUTING file (which nobody will read), but they are mostly based on things which more often than not result in the first few comments dragging this information out of the submitters.

Just to give random recent examples of something that seems too in-the-weeds for this template, issues related to Scintilla syntax highlighting (number six in my prerequisites) "whether any syntax-highlighting issue would be more appropriate to open with the Scintilla project":

https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2038#issuecomment-451692721
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2029#issuecomment-450795082
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2026#issuecomment-450073900
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1984#issuecomment-432456351
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1981#issuecomment-431623933
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1947#issuecomment-419243871
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1944#issuecomment-418275247
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1889#issuecomment-401271520
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1853#issuecomment-386450451
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1844#issuecomment-384207408
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1827#issuecomment-381764051
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1754#issuecomment-362460349
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1728#issuecomment-353753512
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1714#issuecomment-415222033
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1679#issuecomment-342680888
... too many more to bother finding ...

I can find dozens or hundreds of examples like this of the things I put in the Prerequisite section which are almost always left out of the original reports and require someone to explicitly ask. Moreover, anyone submitting a new Issue only has to read them once and then just delete them before clicking submit, or explicitly ignore them and submit the report anyway.

In any case, I don't mind moving them to a separate `CONTRIBUTING` file, even if they are far less effective.

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