The main issue I had with milestones is that you could not rename them. Have they fixed that one too?
GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
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Re: GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
#22I'm amazed that a trivial feature addition like this can make the front page of HN. GitHub may not be perfect, but they are clearly doing something right to win (or re-win?) the affection of the community.
I'm not sure if this is really a good thing. Possibly people are happy that some really annoying problem finally got fixed, rather than celebrate the feature itself. "GitHub stopped killing puppies" would also likely make a front page.
Re: GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
#23Unrelated feature request (because I bet people from GitHub are reading this thread): I'd love to be able to create gists under an organization account rather than attached to my personal profile (and hence only visible to members of that organization).
You may consider to create an issue in one of these repos (or both):
Re: GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
#24The main issue I had with milestones is that you could not rename them. Have they fixed that one too?
Yes you can rename milestones.
Re: GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
#25Can some of the people who upvoted this explain why is this relevant?
Because a lot of people use github issues and milestones as a way to gauge what is needed to be done for what release, and the ability to order by priority is a great option.
You may think it's trivial and doesn't deserve the front page, but many people do. Clearly.
Re: GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
#26Sorry, but it almost seems like some weird variation of Stockholm Syndrome that people get excited about this. It is a trivial feature that should have already been there, and was actually there over 5 years ago before they removed it. If you want to feature compare, Issues is still way behind what various other issue trackers had many years ago.
What kind of features are missing, compared to other issue trackers you like?
Although I'm not OP, I use Phabricator (https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/) at work and I absolutely love it. It's much better than Github for our use case, as it has subtasks, task merging, priorities, Kanban workboards etc. Tasks can block another task (for instance, the "Implement OAuth2" task can block the "Build a private API" task). You can flag objects for later and set specific privacy rules for every task (for instance, you can hide a security bug from the public until it's fixed). It's all tightly integrated with other Phabricator apps, which is a plus. Also, it's open source.
Re: GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
#27I'm happy they added back this feature. Can someone from GitHub explain why they removed it a few years ago [1], and why they changed their mind and added it back today? [1] https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation
The rationale I heard back then was "no one used it". My guess is that these days, even if "no one" means "less than 1% of users" it still amounts to hundreds of thousands of people.
Re: GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
#28Why not a general priority system? Why only for a milestone?
Re: GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of features are missing, compared to other issue trackers you like?
Although I'm not OP, I use Phabricator ( https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/ ) at work and I absolutely love it. It's much better than Github for our use case, as it has subtasks, task merging, priorities, Kanban workboards etc. Tasks can block another task (for instance, the "Implement OAuth2" task can block the "Build a private API" task). You can flag objects for later and set specific privacy rules for every t…
GitHub does sort of have subtasks. If you use checkboxes like so:
- [x] The root url displays a page
- [ ] Users can sign up, sign in, register
GitHub will display the progress on the issue (when you're looking at the list of issues) as 1 of 2.
Re: GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of features are missing, compared to other issue trackers you like?
Although I'm not OP, I use Phabricator ( https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/ ) at work and I absolutely love it. It's much better than Github for our use case, as it has subtasks, task merging, priorities, Kanban workboards etc. Tasks can block another task (for instance, the "Implement OAuth2" task can block the "Build a private API" task). You can flag objects for later and set specific privacy rules for every t…
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