Consider supporting .github directory for DEREK.yaml

[jhillyerd]

GitHub supports a .github directory to reduce the amount of clutter in a projects root directory for issue and contribution docs. It would be nice if DEREK.yml could also be placed there.

A potential downside is that GitHub owns the .github namespace. Alternately a directory named .automation would be nice for this type of configuration data, but pointless if only Derek uses it.

[jhillyerd]

Turns out at least two other bots use .github for their config:

• probot: https://probot.github.io/apps/settings/
• tailor: https://github.com/coreos/tailor/blob/master/README.md

[alexellis]

I see the point about projects collecting files in their root such as .travis.yml, Dockerfile and the likes.

At the moment convention over configuration means the project's code-base can remain simple.

There are lots of different integrations which have a file in the root of a repo - this does also give better visibility to the project which is provided for free. Example of the Docker project and some of the bots they use - https://github.com/moby/moby

While it is a valid point, I don't see a pressing need for this change. Thanks for logging the suggestion - I'll mark it for revisiting at a later date.