Add Common GITHUB Items

[seahawks8]

Hey John,

I saw a couple of posts in g-groups around labels and templates, figured I would add some of them.
These are the first pass, however, they should be fine moving forward.

• GITHUB PR Templates
• GITHUB ISSUE Templates - I used the tags/issues you posted in g-groups "labels and templates"
• GITHUB Codeowners

The next item I want to do is

• implement linting checks for CI VIA github actions, clippy as a first pass

[jfbourdon]

Nice! I'm happy to learn that it's pretty simple to setup issue templates.

I'm obviously not the codeowner, but I wouldn't add so many templates as I think that too much choice will not help the user in the end. I would really only let bug and feature_request as templates as the other labels will probably be better chosen by a maintainer than a user (speeking here about feedback, unix, regression, windows, wont fix, wbt api, wbt runner).

As for question, qgis_plugin, arcgis_plugin and (potentially r_package) I think those templates should not allow to open an issue but instead redirect to the appropriate website (via the config.yml file):

• QGIS plugin: https://github.com/alexbruy/processing-wbt
• ArcGIS plugin: https://github.com/giswqs/WhiteboxTools-ArcGIS
• R package: https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR
• Question: https://gis.stackexchange.com/

[jblindsay]

I think Jean-Francois has very good points here. Can I ask that you revise this PR in light of these comments and resubmit? That would be appreciated.

[seahawks8]

Nice! I'm happy to learn that it's pretty simple to setup issue templates.

I'm obviously not the codeowner, but I wouldn't add so many templates as I think that too much choice will not help the user in the end. I would really only let bug and feature_request as templates as the other labels will probably be better chosen by a maintainer than a user (speeking here about feedback, unix, regression, windows, wont fix, wbt api, wbt runner).

As for question, qgis_plugin, arcgis_plugin and (potentially r_package) I think those templates should not allow to open an issue but instead redirect to the appropriate website (via the config.yml file):

• QGIS plugin: https://github.com/alexbruy/processing-wbt
• ArcGIS plugin: https://github.com/giswqs/WhiteboxTools-ArcGIS
• R package: https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR
• Question: https://gis.stackexchange.com/

I removed the extra templates. redirection is not really possible. I can add a note in the templates that tells users to visit those links if their issue is related to one of those plugins?

[jfbourdon]

To redirect users, you just need to change the blank_issues_enabled line in config.yml:

blank_issues_enabled: false

contact_links:
  - name: Question
    url: https://groups.google.com/g/whiteboxtools
    about: >
      Questions should go to the WhiteboxTools Google Group or other support forums such as https://gis.stackexchange.com/.
      GitHub issues are for bug reports and suggestions for new features.

See example for QGIS:

• https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/new/choose
• https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

[seahawks8]

blank_issues_enabled

ohh, I learned a new feature. cheers.