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Use of checkboxes in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md

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Issue type
Documentation
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Clearly specified
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Domain
tooling

Research direction

Read .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md and locate the checkbox instructions described in the issue. Replace the checkbox guidance with the proposed deletion guidance, then verify that the template no longer creates a progress bar in new issues.

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Description

developer relations documentation

We might want to rethink the use of checkboxes in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md because it causes the issue list to show a "progress bar" (1 of 1 or 1 of 5) like this:

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EDIT:

Perhaps we could replace

<!-- Use [x] to mark your choice. -->

with something like

<!-- Delete everything but your choice. -->.

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