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[WIP] Map issue template metadata to NewIssue.md #8263

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Plan: Map metadata from issue templates to NewIssue.md

  • Understand current implementation

    • Review issue template parsing in getDataFromTemplate
    • Review IssueTemplate interface in util.ts
    • Review NewIssueFileOptions interface in issueFile.ts
    • Review makeNewIssueFile method in issueFeatureRegistrar.ts
    • Review template selection in createIssue method

  • Implement changes to support labels and assignees in templates

    • Extend IssueTemplate interface to include labels and assignees
    • Update getDataFromTemplate method to parse labels and assignees from YAML frontmatter
    • Extend NewIssueFileOptions interface to include labels
    • Update createIssue method to pass template labels and assignees to options
    • Update makeNewIssueFile method to populate labels line with template labels
    • Update chooseTemplate return type to use IssueTemplate
    • Fix parseYamlTemplate to extract labels and assignees from YAML templates

  • Test the changes

    • Build the extension
    • Test YAML parsing for different formats

  • Run code review and security checks

    • Run code_review tool - No issues found
    • Run codeql_checker tool - No alerts found
    • Address feedback from @alexr00 about YAML parsing

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No security vulnerabilities were discovered during the CodeQL security scan.

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<issue_title>Map metadata from issue templates to NewIssue.md</issue_title>
<issue_description>

I have issue templates with metadata, e.g.:

---
name: Bug report
about: Report a bug, help us improve
title: A clear title describing the bug from a user's perspective
labels: bug, needs triage
assignees: username
---

[...some body...]

When I create a new issue using this template, the title is brought through, but the rest of the metadata is not included.

I.e. this is the generated NewIssue.md:

A brief title describing the bug from a user's perspective

Assignees: 
Labels: 
Milestone: 
Projects:

[...some body...]

Would be great to populate the metadata fields based on the issue template!</issue_description>

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Copilot AI and others added 2 commits December 10, 2025 11:26
@alexr00
Initial plan for mapping issue template metadata to NewIssue.md
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Co-authored-by: alexr00 <38270282+alexr00@users.noreply.github.com>
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Add support for labels and assignees in issue templates
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Co-authored-by: alexr00 <38270282+alexr00@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI requested a review from alexr00 December 10, 2025 11:33
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@copilot The issue template is yml, which means we end up with extra yml characters like this:

Assignees: @- alexr000 
Labels: ["bug", "triage"]

@alexr00
Extract labels and assignees from YAML issue templates
394a879 
Co-authored-by: alexr00 <38270282+alexr00@users.noreply.github.com>
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Copilot AI commented Dec 17, 2025

@copilot The issue template is yml, which means we end up with extra yml characters like this:

Assignees: @- alexr000 ...

Fixed in 394a879. The parseYamlTemplate method now extracts labels and assignees from YAML issue templates as proper arrays, avoiding the extra YAML characters in the NewIssue.md output.

Copilot AI requested a review from alexr00 December 17, 2025 15:04
@alexr00 alexr00 marked this pull request as ready for review December 17, 2025 15:28
@alexr00 alexr00 enabled auto-merge (squash) December 17, 2025 15:28
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@alexr00 alexr00 merged commit 9934ff2 into main Dec 17, 2025
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