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A few jobs back I got “promoted” (honestly I didn’t want it but I digress) to an EM. First thing I did was ditch Jira for GH issues. I was hailed as a hero for it. Unfortunately it ended up being a disaster and we had to switch back a year or so later. These were some of the missing features so pretty exciting.
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> well administrated Jira Based on my experience that doesn't exist. Hell even if it did, Jira is sooooo unbelievably slow I would still take literally anything else. Maybe even Savannah. A colleague joked that we need a "waiting for Jira" Jira task.
I believe Apple silicon has Jira coprocessor. It really became usable on M1 and beyond. Even the horrid UX got somehow better in the last few years (like not having 3+ different text inputs, each with different formatting behavior). My guess is since the hardware caught up with them they can now finally use it and iterate.
I'm curious if there are folks here who work at for-profit orgs who use GitHub projects as their sole issue tracker for the entire org. How do you do it and what are the common pain points? Do you couple it with other issue trackers/project management tools like Jira? If so—why? I still feel GH Projects is solely aimed at OSS or dev-centric or dev-only orgs and doesn't cater to teams with non-devs, which is how I thi…
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I suspect it's more to do with issue management isn't their core product so doesn't get the same attention an issue management system would give it.
Wait if it's not their core product, what is ? GitHub is, at its core, a file/history browser + issue management system + merge request system built around Git. There's not that much to it other than issue management.
Most companies don't use GitHub's issue management system they use issue management tools such as JIRA, Trello, etc. Issue management, project management, CI/Actions, wiki, discussions, etc are all nice to haves and are probably more aimed at the open source projects that are used as a marketing tool.
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This is fiction considering Microsoft is extensively using Azure DevOps internally and is still developing it. Moving projects away from it and to GitHub is impossible because they're incredibly far from having feature parity.
Feature parity is probably not required as long as the different teams are able to adapt their workflow to GitHub's approach. Anecdotally, every employee from Microsoft I've talk to about this point during the last two years keep telling me that ADO is over.
Every conversation we have with Microsoft about our ADO -> GH migration is either get GH to feature party or if you force us to migrate, we will evaluate ALL our options.
It's not quite spam: there's often a real person behind it with a real issue but they need a (metaphorical) slap before they muddy the waters and disturb countless people already in the conversation.
I wish they would build features to defend against those near-spam type comments where someone is lazy and appends their clearly unrelated issue onto an existing one that maybe shares a few keywords but nothing substantive. It's not quite spam: there's often a real person behind it with a real issue but they need a (metaphorical) slap before they muddy the waters and disturb countless people already in the conversati…
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GitHub doesn’t have ads and makes its money off of enterprise subscriptions (and Copilot), so I don’t think “engagement” is a very important metric for them.
To the company, no. But to people trying to get a promotion/bigger budgets by proving the features they work on are getting a lot of usage, plausible.
Why not? Companies love to boast about MAUs and similar metrics (even if completely bogus), it has good effect on stock prices.
I'm curious if there are folks here who work at for-profit orgs who use GitHub projects as their sole issue tracker for the entire org. How do you do it and what are the common pain points? Do you couple it with other issue trackers/project management tools like Jira? If so—why? I still feel GH Projects is solely aimed at OSS or dev-centric or dev-only orgs and doesn't cater to teams with non-devs, which is how I thi…