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Re: Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?

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Post by random_rr »

robbiep wrote: post #15

Looking at some of those 'complex' management tasks it seems like a missing feature would be to poll your repositories to look for TODO: 's and list them. For instance, I'm the sole developer of my web backend, iOS and android platformy thing and while android studio has good TODO: Integration sublime and Xcode require plugins, it would be awesome to have something that looks at all three repositories and tells me wh…

Might not work for your development needs, but such a feature exists in PHPStorm/Webstorm, and I'm guessing probably all of the other IntelliJ products.

There is a 'TODO' tab that shows you all 'TODO's in your project directory. Like so: http://i.imgur.com/TW4jXN8.png

Re: Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?

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Post by ashwinaj »

web007 wrote: post #9

I would recommend Jira - get the GreenHopper plugin to make it less "old-fashioned", but it's the right tool for the job. You can customize it if you want to go down that rabbit hole, but the built-in workflows should get you started. Projects, epics and tags should solve the problem of finding issues. Set each client as a project, or more likely as an epic so you can have one view for your developers / designers tha…

+1 for Jira. It's clean, simple and easy to understand.

Re: Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?

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Post by mmwako »

This is a fascinating problem, the "Project Management Tool dilemma": there are hundreds of software alternatives out there, and there seems to be another one coming out everyday, and nonetheless there is always demand for new solutions, and no clear leader in this segment (altough Jira is pretty ahead, and Trello is the strongest newcomer). I've been struggling myself trying to find one in my new work context. I guess there are so many project use-cases, that it's impossible to have a one-size-fits-all solution (and get the pricing right!).

It could be fun to have a global online poll to see who's using what, to know which tools are the most popular, just out of curiosity.

Re: Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?

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Post by edent »

phankinson wrote: post #5

I'm actually working on a new start-up to try to take a stab at this problem. Would love to get some beta users, if any of you are interested: http://hellofocus.com/

Could I politely recommend that you put some screenshots on your front page. Generic statements and stock photos really don't make anything more than a superficial impression.

I'd like to get an idea of what I'm signing up for before I commit.

Re: Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?

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Post by phankinson »

edent wrote: post #25
phankinson wrote: post #5

I'm actually working on a new start-up to try to take a stab at this problem. Would love to get some beta users, if any of you are interested: http://hellofocus.com/

Could I politely recommend that you put some screenshots on your front page. Generic statements and stock photos really don't make anything more than a superficial impression. I'd like to get an idea of what I'm signing up for before I commit.

Thanks for the recommendation. We do have some screenshots on the features page. Ideally next iteration will have more focus on the screenshots. Much of our design is changing at the moment while in beta.

Re: Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?

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Post by ashark »

robbiep wrote: post #15

Looking at some of those 'complex' management tasks it seems like a missing feature would be to poll your repositories to look for TODO: 's and list them. For instance, I'm the sole developer of my web backend, iOS and android platformy thing and while android studio has good TODO: Integration sublime and Xcode require plugins, it would be awesome to have something that looks at all three repositories and tells me wh…

What does grep or a couple lines of Perl with a clever-ish Regex not do that you need them to, for the TODO finding thing?

Re: Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?

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Post by bmulholland »

web007 wrote: post #9

I would recommend Jira - get the GreenHopper plugin to make it less "old-fashioned", but it's the right tool for the job. You can customize it if you want to go down that rabbit hole, but the built-in workflows should get you started. Projects, epics and tags should solve the problem of finding issues. Set each client as a project, or more likely as an epic so you can have one view for your developers / designers tha…

Pivotal Tracker is great for what it's intended for, but it's a very opinionated tool. It's not a good repository for storing a large number of bugs or features, and as such doesn't have fancy features like "X blocks Y".

If you have an external system for your features (we just use a google docs roadmap) and immediately triage bugs (will fix next sprint, or won't fix), it works great. Lots of discipline required, though, and it takes some understanding of their specific approach before things start to make sense.

Re: Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?

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Post by twblalock »

ashwinaj wrote: post #23
web007 wrote: post #9

I would recommend Jira - get the GreenHopper plugin to make it less "old-fashioned", but it's the right tool for the job. You can customize it if you want to go down that rabbit hole, but the built-in workflows should get you started. Projects, epics and tags should solve the problem of finding issues. Set each client as a project, or more likely as an epic so you can have one view for your developers / designers tha…

+1 for Jira. It's clean, simple and easy to understand.

And it integrates well with other software.
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