Standardize .github configuration

[glenn-jocher]

Aligns .github/ with the current Ultralytics repository standard: enables the Lychee broken-link check in format.yml (links: true) and adds the standard issue templates (bug report, feature request, question, config) tailored to this repository.

🛠️ PR Summary

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🌟 Summary

Standardized the repository’s GitHub configuration by enabling Lychee link checking and adding structured issue templates for bugs, feature requests, and questions.

📊 Key Changes

• Enabled links: true in .github/workflows/format.yml, activating Lychee broken-link checks.
• Added a bug report form tailored to the shared MATLAB functions, including component selection, environment details, and a minimal reproducible example.
• Added feature request and question forms with search-before-submitting prompts and relevant repository context.
• Added .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml with blank issues enabled and links to the README, Ultralytics Community Forum, Discord, and Reddit.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• GitHub issue submission now guides users toward structured bug, feature, and question reports with repository-specific fields and labels.
• The formatting workflow now checks links for breakage.

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🔍 PR Review

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Found one blocking CI regression: enabling the fail-closed link checker exposes malformed links in the existing HTML corpus. The workflow change should be paired with link cleanup or a narrowly scoped exclusion.

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• ⚠️ HIGH .github/workflows/format.yml:32 On every non-closed PR, the shared action runs Lychee against all Markdown and HTML files and fails the job on any unaccepted response. This repository already contains malformed HTTPS download links such as https://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.zip in mapping/ne_10m_admin_0_countries/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.README.html; enabling this gate will make otherwise unrelated PRs fail until the existing HTML links are correc…

[glenn-jocher]

Verified on this PR's own Ultralytics Actions run (https://github.com/ultralytics/functions-matlab/actions/runs/31895596194): the Broken Link Checker step completed with 0 errors, so this does not regress CI. Local image references are outside Lychee's checked scope in this configuration.

[glenn-jocher]

Verified on this PR's own Ultralytics Actions run (https://github.com/ultralytics/functions-matlab/actions/runs/31895596194): the Broken Link Checker step completed with 0 errors, so this does not regress CI. Local image references are outside Lychee's checked scope in this configuration.

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🔍 PR Review 2

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Since review 1, the prior Lychee concern has been settled by the reported 0-error workflow run. The current issue templates, configuration, and link-checker change introduce no additional concrete regressions. LGTM.

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🎉 PR #32 has been merged—thank you, @glenn-jocher!

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

This contribution strengthens the repository’s GitHub workflow by enabling Lychee link checks and adding structured templates for bug reports, feature requests, and questions, helping guide contributors toward clear, repository-specific submissions.