PR Template not working

[egekorkan]

The PR template showed up in my vs code environment but not in the GitHub Web UI. We do have it at https://github.com/w3c/wot-thing-description/blob/main/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/basic.md . Anyone has an idea why it is not working?

[egekorkan]

It seems a query parameter needs to be present but the Web UI does not do it. Here is an example https://github.com/w3c/wot-thing-description/compare/main...egekorkan-patch-2?quick_pull=1&template=basic.md

[egekorkan]

After digging up this issue a bit, we are not the only ones suffering from this... There are two stack overflow threads without a real solution:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52139192/github-pull-requests-template-not-showing
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73771068/multiple-templates-for-pull-requests-on-github/73870512

VS Code Plugin actually looks for the different alternatives (see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github/pull/1283/files) but GitHub itself does not. I will make a PR to move the template one level up, meaning that we will have that as the default. Since we have only one anyways, it should not matter. If there are more in the future, we can turn the default template to have two links inside, which will append a query parameter to the URL at the top. Nice that they advertise the feature themselves but without an integration to their main UI since 5+ years...