At livingdocs we're actively using github for all our projects. One missing feature we want in github is to be able to chose from a list of issue templates.
This code is a first try to improve the current behavior. In this codebase you can find a CLI which is able to extract templates from one file and offers a simple templating setup for the README to render them in a list.
There's also a chrome extension in here that benefits of the same code to render a template chooser on the github issue page.
Create a new issue from one of those templates:
{% set pipe = joiner('|') %}
{% for template in templates -%}
{{ pipe() }} [{{template.name}}](http://github.com/marcbachmann/github-issue-templates/issues/new?{{ template.url }})
{%- endfor %}
Those links/templates are generated out of the templates file in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATES.md
You can use the chrome extension to automatically load that file and render dropdown on the github issue page.
Example of the chrome extension:
Create the file .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATES.md.
Check the content in [github-issues-templates/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATES])(./.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATES.md) for an example config.
# Run
$ npm install github-issue-templates -g
$ github-issue-templates
# the previous command has those defaults
$ github-issue-templates --source ./README.tpl.md --destination ./README.md
# the help lists all options
$ github-issue-templates --help