Set up community engagement infrastructure

[tomp736]

Goal

Enable and encourage community engagement with the organization and repositories.

Tasks

GitHub Discussions

• Enable GitHub Discussions at organization level
• Create initial discussion categories:
  • 💡 Ideas & Suggestions
  • 🙋 Q&A
  • 🎉 Show and Tell
  • 📢 Announcements
  • 💬 General
• Pin welcome post explaining the organization

Contributing Guidelines

• Create CONTRIBUTING.md in .github repo
  • How to report issues
  • How to suggest features
  • Code style and standards
  • PR process and expectations
  • Getting started with development

Code of Conduct

• Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (use Contributor Covenant)
• Ensure welcoming, professional tone
• Clear reporting mechanisms

Issue Templates

• Bug report template
• Feature request template
• Question template
• Custom template for infrastructure issues

Pull Request Template

• Create PR template with:
  • Description of changes
  • Testing checklist
  • Breaking changes notification
  • Related issues linking

Success Criteria

• Clear pathways for community contribution
• Professional, welcoming environment
• Structured issue and PR process
• Ready for active community engagement

Part of: Organization Professionalization Project

[labrats-ai-agents]

@ai-developer — Please implement the community engagement infrastructure for this repo. Here's what to create:

Files to Create

1. .github/CONTRIBUTING.md — Contributing guidelines covering:

   • How to report issues
   • How to suggest features
   • Code style and commit conventions (follow existing type(scope): description format)
   • PR process

2. .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md — Use the Contributor Covenant v2.1

3. .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md — Bug report template

4. .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md — Feature request template

5. .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md — PR template with: description, testing checklist, related issues

Standards

• Use the k8s-hetzner-arc runner (label: arc-runner-set) for any CI workflows
• Use shared actions from actions.common where applicable
• Follow conventional commits: docs(community): add contributing guidelines

Create a PR targeting main, assign to tomp736, and close this issue when merged.

[labrats-ai-agents]

❌ Developer (@ai-developer) — Failed

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⏳ Developer (@ai-developer) — In progress

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[tomp736]

@ai-architect — Please oversee all open issues in this repo to completion. Assess relevance, close obsolete issues, delegate actionable work to ai-developer using org shared actions (actions.common/publish-image-buildx), review and merge PRs. Drive every issue to closed.

[labrats-ai-agents]

✅ Architect (@ai-architect) — Completed

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⏳ Architect (@ai-architect) — In progress

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[labrats-ai-agents]

Architect Coordination — Driving All Issues to Closed

@tomp736 Acknowledged. I've assessed all 4 open issues and am orchestrating them to completion.

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Issue Assessment

Issue	Title	Status	Action
#4	🚨 Compliance Check	Partially resolved (README, .gitignore, CLAUDE.md, docs/ added in #22)	Delegate remaining items to @ai-developer
#10	Community engagement infrastructure	Actionable	Delegate to @ai-developer
#11	Repository discoverability / topics	Actionable	Delegate to @ai-developer
#12	Portfolio showcase content	Actionable	Delegate to @AI-Docs

No issues assessed as obsolete — all are valid org goals.

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Delegation Plan

Issue #10 (this issue): @ai-developer please implement all community engagement files:

• CONTRIBUTING.md — contribution guide (how to report issues, suggest features, code style, PR process, getting started)
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md — Contributor Covenant v2.1
• .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md — bug report template
• .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md — feature request template
• .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md — question template
• .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/infrastructure.md — infrastructure issue template
• .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md — PR template with description, testing checklist, breaking changes, related issues

Commit to a branch feat/10-community-engagement, open a PR, assign to tomp736. Close issue #10 when merged.

Issue #4 (compliance): @ai-developer please address remaining compliance items:

• Add LICENSE file (MIT)
• Add SECURITY.md
• Fix deprecated action: update actions/checkout@v3 → actions/checkout@v4 in .github/workflows/repo-info.yml and workflow-templates/repo-info.yml
• Create .claude/ directory with a placeholder if needed

Note: CONTRIBUTING.md and issue templates are covered by the #10 PR above. Branch: fix/4-compliance-remaining. Close issue #4 when merged.

Issue #11 (discoverability): See comment on that issue.

Issue #12 (portfolio): See comment on that issue.

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I will review and merge the resulting PRs once submitted.

[labrats-ai-agents]

❌ Developer (@ai-developer) — Failed

claude failed: File descriptor limits: soft=524288 hard=524288
Cloning repository (ref=main, depth=1)...
Cloning into '/workspace/repo'...
From https://github.com/labrats-work/.github

• branch main -> FETCH_HEAD
  Clone complete.
  {"type":"result","subtype":"success","is_error":true,"duration_ms":634,"duration_api_ms":0,"num_turns":1,"result":"Failed to authenticate. API Error: 401 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"authentication_error","message":"Invalid authentication credentials"

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[labrats-ai-agents]

⏳ Developer (@ai-developer) — In progress

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[tomp736]

@ai-architect — Retrigger (auth fixed). Oversee all open issues in this repo to completion. Close obsolete, delegate to ai-developer, use shared actions from actions.common, review and merge PRs. Drive every issue to closed.

[labrats-ai-agents]

✅ Architect (@ai-architect) — Completed

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