fix: bug-report issue template silently dropped by chooser (description over length limit)

[YangXu1990uiuc]

📌 Description

Follow-up to #4007: the 🐛 Bug Report template was silently missing from the issue template chooser (only 🚀 Kernel / Feature Request appeared), even though the file is valid YAML and passes the published issue-forms JSON schema.

Root cause: GitHub enforces an undocumented length limit on an issue form's top-level description and silently drops templates that exceed it. Ours was 218 characters; the feature template's was 180.

Evidence (bisected on a fork, one variable per variant):

description	length	renders in chooser
T7 (with — and /)	137	✅
feature template	180	✅
bug template (byte-exact copy)	218	❌
T6 (all non-ASCII punctuation removed)	241	❌

Removing render: / placeholder: did not help; special characters and emoji are innocent (feature template has both). The limit sits in (180, 218] — presumably 200, matching the legacy markdown templates' about field.

Fix: tighten both templates' descriptions to a single sentence (bug: 61 chars, feature: 94) — the chooser shows the two templates side by side, so the cross-referencing routing sentences were redundant anyway. Verified rendering on a fork.

🔍 Related Issues

Follow-up to #4007.

🚀 Pull Request Checklist

✅ Pre-commit Checks

• I have installed pre-commit by running pip install pre-commit (or used your preferred method).
• I have installed the hooks with pre-commit install.
• I have run the hooks manually with pre-commit run --all-files and fixed any reported issues.

🧪 Tests

• Tests have been added or updated as needed.
• All tests are passing (unittest, etc.).

(Template-only change; YAML validated, rendering verified on a fork with identical content.)

Reviewer Notes

Neither GitHub's issue-forms docs nor the SchemaStore JSON schema encode this limit — worth remembering when editing template descriptions.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated the bug report template to use shorter, clearer guidance for reporting items that are broken, wrong, or slower than before (including correctness issues, crashes, and performance regressions).
  • Updated the feature request template description to use a single, streamlined prompt covering capability improvements and related requests.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The bug report and feature request issue template descriptions were shortened and rephrased without changing template routing or labels.

Changes

Issue template descriptions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update issue template descriptions .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml, .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml	Replaces the multi-line prompts with shorter single-line descriptions for bug reports and feature requests.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Suggested reviewers: sricketts, dhiraj113, aleozlx, yongwww, yzh119

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: shortening issue template descriptions to fix the chooser omission.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description follows the template and includes the summary, related issue, checklist, tests, and reviewer notes.

✨ Finishing Touches

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