Issue forms chooser shows only one template, while other templates in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE are not displayed

[Mikoshiba-Kyu]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Issues

Body

What happened

In GitHub's issue template chooser, only one template is shown even though multiple YAML issue forms exist under .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.

Some templates are missing from the GitHub GUI and cannot be selected when creating a new issue.

Expected behavior

All valid issue form templates under .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE should appear in GitHub's issue template chooser.

Observed behavior

I have confirmed the following:

• Multiple YAML issue forms exist under .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE
• In the GitHub web UI, only one template is shown and the other templates do not appear
• I first noticed this yesterday in a company repository
• Today I noticed the same behavior in a private personal repository
• In both cases, the YAML files had been renamed, so I cannot say for certain whether the problem already existed before the rename or whether the rename triggered it
• However, changing the filenames back does not fix the issue
• I could not find any obvious problems in the YAML contents
• Templates that had existed for some time seem to continue appearing, while recently added or renamed templates seem more likely not to appear
• Because of that, I suspect GitHub may not be re-recognizing recently added or renamed issue forms correctly

Example repository structure

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
  bug.yml
  feature.yml
  task.yml

Things already checked

• The issue forms are placed under .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE
• They are committed to the default branch
• Issues are enabled for the repository
• Labels referenced by the templates already exist
• The files are UTF-8 with LF line endings
• I could not find any YAML syntax problems

Additional notes

I am seeing the same behavior in more than one repository around the same time.

Because of that, this looks less like a repository-specific configuration mistake and more like a GitHub-side issue with issue forms / the template chooser, or with the re-indexing / re-recognition of newly added or renamed issue form files.

Impact

Users cannot select the missing templates from the GitHub GUI, so part of the issue creation flow is broken.

Guidelines

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[Donnerstagnacht]

I have a similiar issue. It does not show issue templates from my code base but it shows issue templates that do not exist (default templates)?

These are my templates:

If i create a new issue, I can these new templates:

But when I want to assign a type, the "Test suite" is missing and a "Task" type appears:

[Donnerstagnacht]

In my case I could solve it by enabling the template in the organization settings. Seems like the templates shown in "create issue" are drawn from the repository while the issue type shown in the "type gui dropdown" are drawn from the organization.