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Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Post by zdgman »

jeremymcanally wrote: post #37
zdgman wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now I know github doesn't have a typical roadmap or backlog but I guess what I was looking for was how someone decides what feature they are "fed up" with not having.

We use GitHub to build GitHub, so typically a feature comes from our own usage pain points. I imagine the conversation internally went something like, "Man, attaching an image to an issue is really annoying. Let's make it not suck." An issue and pull request followed, internally shipped it to test it, and today rolled it out to you all. That's literally how 99.99% of features happen on GitHub. :)

Thanks Jeremy. That's the sort of answer I was looking for. Good luck with Railcar!

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Post by mtodd »

jeremymcanally wrote: post #37
zdgman wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now I know github doesn't have a typical roadmap or backlog but I guess what I was looking for was how someone decides what feature they are "fed up" with not having.

We use GitHub to build GitHub, so typically a feature comes from our own usage pain points. I imagine the conversation internally went something like, "Man, attaching an image to an issue is really annoying. Let's make it not suck." An issue and pull request followed, internally shipped it to test it, and today rolled it out to you all. That's literally how 99.99% of features happen on GitHub. :)

Pain points rule everything around me.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Post by holman »

c4urself wrote: post #43

What was wrong with ![Alt text]( http://imgur/path )? Seemed like the perfect balance between, hard enough that you don't throw everything on there and eat up space, but useable enough that it works fine when you need it.

Nothing! In fact, the new issue attachments code uses plain ol' Markdown to show the image. The reason we added this is because arcane Markdown code is impossibly hostile for new users and beginners.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Post by c0mpute »

technoweenie wrote: post #40
c0mpute wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you tell me a bit about the CDN situation, especially what specific issue did you run into?

No issue, we just wanted to set something up as opposed to running directly from S3.

Ah nice!, easier to drive down the costs that way. Thanks.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Post by tanoku »

Oh, by the way, people were asking on Twitter, so we just enabled support for the HTML5 clipboard API. If you're using Chrome, you can now just paste an image into the comment box to upload it!

Very handy with Mac OS X screenshot shortcuts that copy straight to the clipboard.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Post by misnome »

vijaydev wrote: post #24
Xylakant wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Core dumps and lengthy stacktraces spring to my mind.

Can use Gist for these.

That's not super obvious or convenient for new or casual users. You could make the same argument about images; Just make a new repository (or gist) and put an image in it, then link to it!

This new way is much better.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Post by hunvreus »

dbaupp wrote: post #32
hunvreus wrote: post #10

With Skitch completely screwing their latest release, hosting issue related files (screenshots, doodles...) was painful to say the least. Dropbox did an ok job at it but did not let me embed pictures in the thread (the file URLs change randomly). Pretty awesome that the guys at Github got that covered.

Obviously a non-issue now, but what about something like http://imgur.com/ ?

Can you keep pictures private on imgur?
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