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Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by toupeira »

rogerbinns wrote: post #44
sgarrity wrote: post #16

Some nice improvements here. It appears, though, that Projects suffer from the same problem we've had with Issues: they are limited to one repo. I know there are some tools to manage Issues across repos, but for the most part, the tools seem to assume you work on only one repo, or that milestones only affect a single repo. I would love to see projects/milestones become more capable when dealing with cross-repo issues…

This has been why we don't use github's issues, wikis, and why we won't use their projects. For example if the overall product has a web site repo, server repo, iOS repo and an Android repo then they need to be used as a coherent whole. An issue might be reported against iOS but the cause is in the server, so the ticket would need to be moved. Rinse and repeat for all the other interactions of piece, and that collabo…

They recently added a per-user pricing model, so maybe they would be open to suggestions.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by drewolson »

Reviews are very exciting, but seem to be unable to fit the following use case:

I want to setup a repo such that a subset of collaborators (or organization members) can merge reviewed PRs to protected branches. I want the rest of the users to be able to create new branches and submit PRs from them, but _not_ to be able to push to protected branches. They should _only_ be able to land code in protected branches via reviewed PRs (via the merge button).

Is there a way to achieve this now that I'm missing? Gitlab's more granular user roles + permissions allow this.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by elliotec »

captn3m0 wrote: post #17

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

I agree with you that the pick up in pace of Github's lacking features has been phenomenal, and I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. Github is the clear industry leader, has been since essentially it's creation. It is very fast and feature-filled. It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see. Since the open letter to Github with the complaints of feature requests, they've really stepped up their game and made competitors really non-starters from my point of view.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by jglovier »

bowmessage wrote: post #15

Is this the death of Trello?

Very unlikely. We hope that Projects will be the best place for people to coordinate work on a GitHub repository, but that doesn't really limit Trello's value much. They'll continue to offer lots of value as a great way to coordinate work for many contexts outside GitHub repositories.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by deeplyoptional »

drewolson wrote: post #52

Reviews are very exciting, but seem to be unable to fit the following use case: I want to setup a repo such that a subset of collaborators (or organization members) can merge reviewed PRs to protected branches. I want the rest of the users to be able to create new branches and submit PRs from them, but _not_ to be able to push to protected branches. They should _only_ be able to land code in protected branches via re…

https://github.com/blog/2137-protected-branches-improvements

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by ma138 »

jglovier wrote: post #26
captn3m0 wrote: post #17

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

>projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. This is really not about replacing those services, it's more about building a better foundation for integrators like Waffle and ZenHub to build on.

At ZenHub, we have already starting working on some integrations with this functionality which you can read more about here - https://www.zenhub.com/blog/dispatches-from-github-universe/

Our focus is going to remain on how to integrate a full-featured project management suite within the GitHub eco-system. The GitHub projects release will make a great foundation, and ZenHub will be there to provide the more advanced features like issue hierarchy (epics), time estimation and reporting. Lots of exciting releases coming soon for ZenHub users :)

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by ma138 »

captn3m0 wrote: post #35
jglovier wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. This is really not about replacing those services, it's more about building a better foundation for integrators like Waffle and ZenHub to build on.

I'm looking at https://www.zenhub.com/product , and while it does have some extra features (filters on priority, labels), but for most people the base set provided by github is gonna be sufficient. Sure, it won't completely replace them, but GitHub building this as a platform counts as competition.

Using ZenHub also provides additional features like time estimation, burndown charts and Epics (for issue hierarchy) - we find that for larger teams, these are must-have features to work inside GitHub.
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