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Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by quesodev » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 7:40 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #91

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.

Thanks! I do have plans to eventually charge for organization repos, but I need more installs to list a paid plan in the Github App store. So it's free forever for anyone who signs up now.

You can restrict the permissions to just one repository when you authorize the app. There should be a radio button for "All apps" or "Selected Apps". If you select the second one, you can pick the repos where to install it.

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by madeofpalk » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 9:07 PM UTC

bastardoperator wrote: post #105

madeofpalk wrote: post #87

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The open source company im at uses Github Issues/Projects exclusively for project management, and I'm not a fan, though I do think it's the least worst option - using any other system would require a really weird and bad way to sync the issues that are reported publicly. Github just lacks the few necessary to do project management well, I think. I would love a "backlog view" for Github Projects.

You could just create a column and or use label called backlog.

Yes, this is what we do, but it’s not ideal.

I would love a way to have a separate backlog “column” that doesn’t show in the Project kanban view. I’m keen to try out the new Issues/Project features when they roll out.

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by aetherspawn » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 3:39 AM UTC

skinnymuch wrote: post #117

aetherspawn wrote: post #94

`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, c…

Isn’t Microsoft To Do built off and based in on their acquisition of Wunderlist? So Wunderlist essentially/mostly made it. I believe a lot of vocal fans of Wunderlist were upset with how it all went down and didn’t want Microsoft To Do. So there’s lots of internet vocal negativity toward the app possibly.

I think the Microsoft acquisition is maybe the best thing that could have happened to advancing its integration with the other office tools that I use. I’m very happy with it as a consumer (it’s free, but I pay for office)

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by handrous » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 5:06 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #115

handrous wrote: post #83

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Notes.app can hold so much more than would work in a sticky. Whole embedded PDFs in the middle of a note, images, tables.

Sticky Notes are full RTF documents, and can at least hold embedded images. (Not sure about the other things, I haven't tried.)

Ah, the problem may just be that I've never explored their full features. I think of them as those little square text notes you can put on the screen, and have never tried to do more with them. Given that understanding, I don't see how they'd map well to Notes, but if there are other ways to display or interact with them that I wasn't aware of, then maybe it does make sense.

Re: GitHub Issues-only project management

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Post by jeffnappi » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #11

jeffnappi wrote: post #4

GitHub issues + ZenHub is a great combo.

I tried ZenHub back before GitHub had Projects, but I thought that Projects had feature parity with ZenHub. What’s the advantage of using ZenHub at this point?

I'm not sure if GitHub project has caught up with it, but ZenHub has things like automations for moving issues to the PR'd column when PR'd, etc.