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Consider introducing Issue Templates

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github

Research direction

Start by reading CONTRIBUTING.md, especially the Work Item Proposals guidance, then review the linked user-stories repository and W3C correction classes. Determine which proposal types belong in this repository and define templates for the agreed categories, including their required information; done means the selected templates reflect the project’s contribution process.

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Description

It may help to introduce some issue templates.

Let's process https://github.com/solid/specification/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md (e.g., Work Item Proposals) and other material elsewhere to see what would be useful to template.

  • New Work Item Proposal
  • Use Case Proposal - This may need to be in https://github.com/solid/user-stories or Work Item repo specific?
  • Work Item Change Proposal - identify intended/anticipated change using W3C correction classes (issue should be for "significant" classes 3-5).
  • Dedicated Meeting Proposal (topic, time, location, focus..)
  • ...
Dominant language
HTML
Stars
563
Forks
111
Avg merge
5d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
4

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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