Situation

If contributors try to create new issues, everybody is free to write in the issue what they want. Although we don't want to force people, it could be helpful if we provide some kind of guidance what we need from a contributor.

Proposed Solution

GitHub supports so called "Issue Templates". With them in place, it can have the following benefits:

• Channel the issues into, for example, feature requests or bug reports. It's possible to create as many as you want, but in practice, two or three are probably more than enough.
• Help contributors to give them a structure and simplify the creation of issues a bit. That reminds them of their OS, Python version etc. (which could be useful for some bugs).
• Set default labels for issues. For example, a bug report can have a "bug" label by default.

These are the steps:

1. Create a .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE folder.
2. Create a new YAML file and give them a distinctive name.
3. Add the content of the issue template.

After if this is merged, contributors can select which template they want to use when creating a new issue.

What's your opinion? Useful? Useless? 😉