honestly, i hate having a form for my coworkers to fill out. i’ve done it before. i’ve seen it done. i prefer my collaborators, especially in a work environment to do the professional thing and give me enough context to understand the change. i don’t want to have to treat my coworkers like half interested children, but that temptation is always there. a bunch of “did you do your homework?” check boxes feels condescending by proxy. we don’t need a check box for “are the tests passing?” cuz we have automated tests and CI.

i prefer something that just nudges people in the right direction if i can get away with it.

just this week i added a template that read like:

PR guidelines are in CONTRIBUTING.md

This text is meant to be replaced by a short description of your change to inform as to _why_ this change was made to help us triage errors when things go wrong, to provide relevant context to reviewers, and as a matter of due diligence.