I'd love to learn more about git-native issues and projects, though my first thought is that if they're stored in markdown, you can build them in whatever editors you would like! Here's a mockup

PR-Template.md

head	assignee	base	draft	issue	reviewers	tags
0atman:branch-name-with-your-changes	0atman	local-branch-name-on-this-repo	true	linked issue url?	0atman user2 user3	help wanted bug documentation duplicate enhancement invalid question wontfix

PR Title Goes Here

The first item in the document should be an H1, #, with the title of the PR.

This is a pull request template, with machine-readable frontmatter in YAML.

(YAML Frontmatter Explanation)

Yaml frontmatter is both extremely human readable and very standard for Markdown metadata. It's used in many static site generators including Jekyll and in the biggest desktop markdown note taking tool, Obsidian.

Implementors must only strip out the YAML between --- at the start, and you can then parse both the YAML and Markdown normally.

All the normal YAML caveats must be considered (such as The Norway Problem so we'll want to define that a strict subset to be used, perhaps quoting all strings etc.

Proposed YAML Keys

key	explaination	example
head	fully-qualified branch name with proposed changes. The repo must have exactly the same name.	0atman:my-branch
assignee	the assignee (usually the proposer) of this PR	0atman
base	the local branch name that we wish to modify (usually main)	main
draft	true/false this is often used to indicate a WIP PR	true
issue	a linked issue url, either inside this system, or external	http://example.com
reviewers	a yaml list of usernames to review this PR	[0atman, user2, user3]
tags	a yaml list of tags categorising this PR	[bug, documentation]

I suppose arbitrary keys outside this list could be fine too, everyone will organise their PRs and issues in different ways. I've chosen names based on the GitHub API, as a reasonable reference, except I changed 'labels' to 'tags' because that's what we call them.

Comments

I am unsure the best way to do comments, but perhaps appending quote blocks like this with the username after a bullet?

• 0atman

Yeah, other Tris, sounds good!

• 0atman_with_moustache

Here's how Obsidian renders this, very nicely: