Convert issue templates in markdown to GitHub's issue forms

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/1-newidea.yaml

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+name: "\U0001F4A1 Submit a feature request / idea"
+description: Describe an idea, todo, feature, task, improvement, issue, epic, or story
+labels:
+  - enhancement
+
+body:
+- type: checkboxes
+  attributes:
+    label: Prerequisites
+    options:
+    - label: This issue has an informative and human-readable title.
+      required: true
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: "\U0001F4A1 Summary"
+    description: What is the work, as a high-level summary?
+    placeholder: |
+      The purpose of this issue is to accomplish x task for y reason...
+  validations:
+    required: true 
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Motivation and context 
+    description: Why does this work belong in this project?
+    placeholder: |
+     This would be useful because...
+  validations:
+    required: true
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Implementation notes
+    description: Please provide details for implementation. 
+    placeholder: |
+      1. An example for how this would be used
+      2. What would this look like?
+      3. How this would act?
+      4. Any related work, including links to related issues
+  validations:
+    required: true
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Acceptance criteria (optional)
+    description: How do we know when this work is done?
+    placeholder: |
+      - [ ] The new feature is fully implemented based on x, y, z criteria
+      - [ ] Additional unit test coverage is added
+      - [ ] Any other criteria
+  validations:
+    required: false

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/2-bugreport.yaml

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+name: "\U0001F41B Bug report"
+description: Describe a bug, error, unexpected behavior, or other problem
+labels:
+- bug
+
+body:
+- type: checkboxes
+  attributes:
+    label: Prerequisites
+    options:
+    - label: This issue has an informative and human-readable title.
+      required: true
+- type: dropdown
+  attributes:
+    label: Operating System
+    description: Which operating system are you using?
+    options:
+      - Windows
+      - macOS
+      - Linux
+  validations:
+    required: true
+- type: input
+  attributes:
+    label: Python Version
+    description: Which Python version are you using?
+    placeholder: Enter your Python version (e.g., 3.10, 3.12)
+  validations:
+    required: true
+- type: input
+  attributes:
+    label: PowerShell Version (optional)
+    description: Which PowerShell version are you using?
+    placeholder: Enter PowerShell version (e.g., 5.1, 7.0)
+  validations:
+    required: false
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: "\U0001F41B Summary"
+    description: What's wrong? Please be specific.
+    placeholder: This bug is resulting in an unexpected result in the reports...
+  validations:
+    required: true 
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Steps to reproduce
+    description: Steps to reproduce the behavior.
+    placeholder: |
+      1. Using this environment...
+      2. Ran scubagoggles gws with these parameters...
+      3. Got this specific error output at this line number...
+  validations:
+    required: true
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Expected behavior
+    description: What did you expect to happen that didn't? 
+  validations:
+    required: true
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Any helpful log output or screenshots? (optional)
+    description: |
+      Links? References? Anything that will give us more context about the issue you are encountering!
+    placeholder: "Tip: You can attach images or log files by clicking this area to highlight it and then dragging files in."
+  validations:
+    required: false

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

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+blank_issues_enabled: false