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