GitHub's Community Standards checker does not recognize .yml based issue form templates correctly ?

[rujutashinde]

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My repo has the issue templates under .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATES in .yml format. But the Community Standards section shows as Issue Templates task as incomplete. Is this a known issue? If so is there a workaround?

[Gourav-rajwar-dev]

This usually happens because GitHub only recognizes issue templates if they’re placed in the exact folder it expects. The correct folder name is .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE (singular), not ISSUE_TEMPLATES (plural). If your folder name is plural, the Community Standards checklist won’t detect it and will show it as incomplete. Just rename the folder to .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE, push the changes, and refresh the page — it should get marked as complete.

[rujutashinde]

hello @Gourav-rajwar-dev it was a typo in the initial message, the folder is named correctly. This is the folder for the repo https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop/tree/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE
It looks like everything is correctly added to the folder but i still see the incomplete mark under issue templates https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop/community

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