ideas for the issue template

Signed-off-by: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>

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+## NOTE: Actionable Chef Client Bugs Only
+
+The issues opened against this repository must be relevant to chef-client and the code contained within this repository
+(knife, chef-apply, chef-solo, etc).
+
+This issue tracker is for software development, support questions are better handled through Slack, the Chef Mailing List,
+Stack Overflow or your support contact:
+
+* [Chef Mailing List](https://discourse.chef.io/)
+* [Chef Community Slack](https://community-slack.chef.io/)
+* [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/chef) - tag questions with 'chef'
+
+Larger product enhancement and feedback should go through either the feedback site or go through the RFC process:
+
+* [feedback.chef.io](https://feedback.chef.io/forums/301644-chef-product-feedback/category/110832-chef-client)
+* [Chef RFCs](https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc)
+* [Chef Community Slack Meetings](https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc001-slack-meetings.md)
+
+Bugs in other products should go to their specific repos, this is not a catch-all repo for all products:
+
+* [Chef Server issues](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/new)
+* [ChefDK issues](https://github.com/chef/chef-dk/issues/new)
+* Cookbook Issues (see the https://github.com/chef-cookbooks repos or search [Supermarket](https://supermarket.chef.io) or GitHub/Google)
+
 ## Description
 
-Briefly describe the issue
+< Briefly describe the issue. >
 
 ## Chef Version
 
-Tell us which version of chef-client you are using (see below for Server+ChefDK bugs).
+< Tell us which version of chef-client you are using. >
 
 ## Platform Version
 
-Tell us which Operating System distribution and version chef-client is running on.
+< Tell us which Operating System distribution and version chef-client is running on. >
 
 ## Replication Case
 
-Tell us what steps to take to replicate your problem.  See [How to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve)
-for information on how to create a good replication case.
+< Tell us what steps to take to replicate your problem.  See [How to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve)
+for information on how to create a good replication case. >
 
 ## Client Output
 
-The relevant output of the chef-client run or a link to a gist of the entire run, if there is one.
+< The relevant output of the chef-client run or a link to a gist of the entire run, if there is one. >
 
-The debug output (chef-client -l debug) may be useful, but please link to a gist, or truncate it.
+< The debug output (chef-client -l debug) may be useful, but please link to a gist, or truncate it. >
 
 ## Stacktrace
 
-Please include the stacktrace.out output or link to a gist of it, if there is one.
-
-### NOTE: CHEF CLIENT BUGS ONLY
+< Please include the stacktrace.out output or link to a gist of it, if there is one. >
 
-This issue tracker is for the code contained within this repo -- `chef-client`, base `knife` functionality (not
-plugins), `chef-apply`, `chef-solo`, `chef-client -z`, etc.
-
-* Requests for new or alternative functionality should be made to [feedback.chef.io](https://feedback.chef.io/forums/301644-chef-product-feedback/category/110832-chef-client)
-* [Chef Server issues](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/new)
-* [ChefDK issues](https://github.com/chef/chef-dk/issues/new)
-* Cookbook Issues (see the https://github.com/chef-cookbooks repos or search [Supermarket](https://supermarket.chef.io) or GitHub/Google)