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... that's what the HN link is
The original link was to https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/125 The link was changed to the GitHub blog post sometime in the past hour since _ikke_ commented.
The problem I have with this is, I don't want a template for the comment a contributor leaves on a PR; I want to display a message to them before they submit a PR. It's not a standard way to display messages, requiring users to read editable text (that has no clickable URLs) and then delete that text after they read it and submit.
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Seems like this one is solved by showing the number of subscribers to an issue. I don't think this really needs to be a separate feature.
I think it makes sense to have a difference in meaning between "I want to be e-mailed updates about this" (subscribe) versus "I think this is important/valuable/necessary" (star/vote).
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It's the same way with README, CONTRIBUTING, LICENSE, Makefile, package.json, and anything else.
No it's not. I can use the README outside of github as a guide on how to do things with the code. Contributing can define a style guide so we're all on the same page code wise. LICENSE for distribution, Makefile, package.json both are required for the code to work correctly... issue_template.md is only useful in a repo on github.
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Limited to images? Am I supposed to take a screenshot of some huge error dump? A workaround is to use gists. But it's not a good workflow.
GitHub also supports txt and other common document formats: https://github.com/blog/2061-attach-files-to-comments
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The original link was to https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/125 The link was changed to the GitHub blog post sometime in the past hour since _ikke_ commented.
Is there a way to check what was linked originally or do you just have to click the link before it's changed to know?
How does that work with branches ? Is there a master branch required to have this file, what if project doesn't have master branch ? I think the concept of having a file in source code is flowed for DVCS unless you have so called "source" branch that you can define that is a default source of such information.
[1] https://help.github.com/articles/setting-the-default-branch/
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Is there a way to check what was linked originally or do you just have to click the link before it's changed to know?
dang normally comments when he changes a link, as he did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11120948
I asked Craigslist to do this years ago for the "for sale" sections, so that people included the number of doors on a car, the color, etc., and the kind of heat in an apartment, and so on. Such a simple thing, and would make searching so much better, and the service in general better.
Craigslist has dedicated form fields for a lot of those things, which can then be used with search filters. The problem is that they aren't mandatory, and most users don't fill them in. The side effect of this is that if you use the search filters, you risk missing out on a result which matches your criteria but lacks the metadata. (Craigslist doesn't have an option to search for only Blue AND Unspecified, so there's…
Kinda meh on adding it to the repo since it's yet another file I have to "manage" that isn't really part of the working code.
Many large FOSS projects (which this is aimed for) already have CONTRIBUTING.md etc... I personally prefer this non UI/Github specific approach.