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Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by hartator »

quesodev wrote: post #23

Having run several engineering teams (15-20 people), I used this approach extensively. It meant one less place to go and one less tool to use. I liked this approach so much, I also wanted to use Github Issues for internal and external customer support instead of having another help desk tool involved. I created https://hubdesk.io/ as a side project to do this. Forward your support emails to HubDesk and it creates a G…

That's an awesome idea.

Love that the default is private and you have to add @reply to actually reply. I'll give it a try. Do you plan to make money from it? It's not super reassuring to start relying on it if it can get killed tomorrow. Also is there a way to restrict permission to a specific repo for the GitHub integration? "Act on your behalf" is a little scary as a permission.

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by some_developer »

enra wrote: post #69
antipaul wrote: post #59

I wish. I’m at Big Corp where key project collaborators and stakeholders are wildly non technical and there’s no way to use GitHub issues. They mostly use only email. What is a more accessible alternative? I’ve been trying google docs. Thoughts?

We have been building https://linear.app which is both used by technical and non-technical folks

For tech ppl, linear has so many pain points (ofc heavily depends on your workflow style) I cry in agony every night.

- email notification are batched unless it's an urgent issue. This is such bollocks, I don't know how they get away with this. Gh issues and jira just work. Workaround: use their Webhook and do it yourself. Makes me so angry.

- can't search comments WTF

- I'm a "tabber", but linears super-fancy-SPA bootstrapping is way behind loading a single issue page especially compared to github but also jira

- github has no wysiwyg and linear ONLY has it, but it has so many subtle bugs, especially with lists. But I'm spoiled with notion. Has its own set of problems, but pure editing is great

Oh boi I could go on.

But I agree, for cross teams with non-devs it works great.

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by ricardobeat »

civilized wrote: post #79
polote wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate JIRA. But if you are not a small organization, JIRA doesn't play in the same league as Github issues. Same as Notion and Confluence

I question the notion that JIRA is the only workable tool at large organizations. Many large organizations are full of small, relatively autonomous teams anyway, and those teams will benefit from a less bureaucratic tool.

Precisely, and larger orgs will most likely resort to yet another tool for higher level planning like ProductPlan. JIRA is left for product teams at the local scale.

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by aetherspawn »

`Microsoft To Do` works great as an issues-only repository that syncs well between multiple users and devices, integrates with Outlook (flagging an email automatically imports an issue) and has i.e. excellent native desktop and mobile apps.

Once I started using Microsoft To Do, the way that I ran my life/business scheduling became 10-fold more efficient. Any recurring tasks or issues, be it daily, weekly, annually, can be easily scheduled, tracked, and shown as a badge in your taskbar. It's an incredibly integrated, underdiscovered and maybe undervalued app that Microsoft sort of stealth released.

It is so powerful that I deprecated all my no-code JIRA projects and opt to using it instead of a Calendar in my personal life. Would do the same Calendar delete in my business if only it integrated with Teams/Outlook calendar and meeting bookings.

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by CMCDragonkai »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #37

Nope. Having worked in a shop that used GitLab issues for project management, I've come to realize GitHub-style issue trackers work if all your project management boils down to creating and tracking bite-sized blobs of work. It stops being sufficient when you need to actually plan ahead . FWIW, so does Trello. Couple reasons why: - Issues are flat. Work breaks down into a tree. And no, "epic / ticket / checkboxes in…

Indeed I find it strange that no PM software has first class graph/DAG support.

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by bachmeier »

antipaul wrote: post #59

I wish. I’m at Big Corp where key project collaborators and stakeholders are wildly non technical and there’s no way to use GitHub issues. They mostly use only email. What is a more accessible alternative? I’ve been trying google docs. Thoughts?

Basecamp? Other people can use email if they want (their reply messages go right into the project).

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by lstamour »

lstamour wrote: post #29
derefr wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, sure, I don’t mean “why does this app exist”; I mean “why isn’t its underlying data model merged/synchronized with that of the other OS note-taking app.” Why can’t I see my computer’s Sticky Notes on my iPhone in Notes under “Sticky Notes - [Computer name]”? Why can’t I add a sticky note to my computer by putting it in such a folder?

It might be that the future of sticky notes is Quick Notes as in iOS 15, but they do different things, I agree. Apple really should integrate the concept of sticky notes into both Notes and Reminders, to create a bit of a hybrid - a sticky note that can act as a reminder, etc. Even better would be sticky notes that reveal themselves when using certain macOS or iOS modes, so that when I’m at work I see my work stickie…

Maybe something like https://www.zoho.com/blog/notebook/introducing-notebook-app.... in design…
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