Comment by deckar01
10 years ago
GitHub has settings for individual repos. People can opt to turn the issue tracker off completely.
Why not have the option to enable issue voting? It could be as easy as stars for issues.
Custom issue instructions would be trivial to tuck away in the settings page or associate with a specially named markdown file. They turn a wiki on by default, but you can't instruct users about the info you expect in their issue on the page where they create the issue. Documentation is very effective when it is inline with the system it is describing.
Custom issue fields with validation is a little more complex. Punt.
You can't fully disable the issue tracker: Pull requests can't be disabled and each PR becomes an issue.