Centralize issues/github templates and CONTRIBUTING.md

[mkurz]

Probably a good idea to move most (all?) of them into the .github repo (we have there one already):

• https://github.com/playframework/anorm/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
• https://github.com/playframework/playframework/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
• https://github.com/playframework/play-mailer/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
• https://github.com/playframework/play-slick/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
• https://github.com/playframework/twirl/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Same with the issue an pull request templates:

• https://github.com/playframework/play-json/tree/main/.github/
• https://github.com/playframework/anorm/tree/main/.github/
• https://github.com/playframework/playframework/tree/main/.github/
• https://github.com/playframework/play-meta/tree/main/.github/
• https://github.com/playframework/play-ws/tree/main/.github/

For issues I think we should just use a ISSUE_TEMPLATE folder, we can influence sorting by numbering the files, e.g. see here.

More information:

• https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/creating-a-default-community-health-file
• https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors
• https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/about-issue-and-pull-request-templates

[ihostage]

I agree 👍 I had the same thoughts. Moreover, I think we also should unify a labels for all repos 😄

[mkurz]

Same thought here too about labels ;) I am looking into mergify config right now (after drinking coffee with java beans)

[mkurz]

@ihostage So mergify can not read configs from the .github repo yet and also can not extend other configs :cry:. I opened a pull request to at least read configs from the .github repo: https://github.com/Mergifyio/mergify-engine/pull/4050 I did not implement _extends however (yet :wink:)

[ihostage]

@mkurz Yep, I explored Mergify opportunities too and know that he cannot do that 😞 And it's great that you tried to implement this 👍

[mkurz]

@ihostage Please vote up this discussion as well: https://github.com/Mergifyio/mergify-engine/discussions/2205 thanks!