We want to accomplish two things:

1. Not make it necessary to run code on local machines to triage bug reports
2. Lower the friction for reporters (and maintainers) to create fully encapsulated and reproducible bug reports

Ideas

• A workspace or separate repo that has the following:
  • Template repository (or just forkable)
  • Minimal tools and templated files for common tasks (managing node versions, npm versions, asserting behavior)
    • package.json
    • nvm
    • tap
    • run npm from source via a registry tarball
  • devcontainer.json for codespace settings
  • Github action workflows that run CI for requested os/version matrix
• Update bug report with instructions for creating VM/codespace
  • Prior art statelyai/xstate@c9e83c0#diff-637f7b97bba458badb691a1557c3d4648686292e948dbe3e8360564378b653efR40-R47
• Encapsulate all this in an npx-able bin (npx @npmcli/bug-report --npm 8.5.3 --node 16 ?)

Caveats

• URL rot. It would be nice if any links to reproductions in issues would not 404
• Codespaces require admin rights to repo or a PAT with a codespace scope. Offloading this to non-member reporters might not be possible
  • https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-codespaces/about-billing-for-codespaces#how-billing-is-handled-for-forked-repositories