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Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Post by deckar01 »

sensanaty wrote: post #181

Day 50 trillion of begging Github for a functional notification system so I can stop receiving infinite numbers of emails from all the bots and similar things commenting on PRs. Also being designated a codeowner in a large repo, the number of notifications I get daily from the number of PRs is fucking absurd, with no way of turning them off. Drives me up the wall daily. If a colleague doesn't straight up send me a PR…

Doesn’t unwatching a repo limit notifications to mentions and participated threads?

Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Post by mort96 »

that_guy_iain wrote: post #144
mort96 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's core product is git hosting, you use it to host your git repositories. You use features such as Pull Requests to power how you merge within your git repositories. If the issue system isn't working it's not a big deal, but if we can't use git it's a massive deal. It's all in the name GIThub Most companies don't use GitHub's issue management system they use issue management tools such as JIRA, Trello, etc. Issue m…

Most open source projects (you know, the thing GitHub claims to exist for) do pretty much exclusively use GitHub issues for issue tracking though. GitHub makes it pretty difficult to be on GitHub and not accept GitHub issues.

Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Post by that_guy_iain »

mort96 wrote: post #202
that_guy_iain wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's core product is git hosting, you use it to host your git repositories. You use features such as Pull Requests to power how you merge within your git repositories. If the issue system isn't working it's not a big deal, but if we can't use git it's a massive deal. It's all in the name GIThub Most companies don't use GitHub's issue management system they use issue management tools such as JIRA, Trello, etc. Issue m…

Most open source projects (you know, the thing GitHub claims to exist for) do pretty much exclusively use GitHub issues for issue tracking though. GitHub makes it pretty difficult to be on GitHub and not accept GitHub issues.

But open source projects are not what keeps GitHub in business that is just marketing. Companies paying for git hosting is.

You can easily disable issues.

Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Post by [deleted] »

deckar01 wrote: post #201
sensanaty wrote: post #181

Day 50 trillion of begging Github for a functional notification system so I can stop receiving infinite numbers of emails from all the bots and similar things commenting on PRs. Also being designated a codeowner in a large repo, the number of notifications I get daily from the number of PRs is fucking absurd, with no way of turning them off. Drives me up the wall daily. If a colleague doesn't straight up send me a PR…

Doesn’t unwatching a repo limit notifications to mentions and participated threads?

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Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Post by ricardobeat »

deckar01 wrote: post #201
sensanaty wrote: post #181

Day 50 trillion of begging Github for a functional notification system so I can stop receiving infinite numbers of emails from all the bots and similar things commenting on PRs. Also being designated a codeowner in a large repo, the number of notifications I get daily from the number of PRs is fucking absurd, with no way of turning them off. Drives me up the wall daily. If a colleague doesn't straight up send me a PR…

Doesn’t unwatching a repo limit notifications to mentions and participated threads?

Codeowners are added as a reviewer to every PR that touches a file under their (team) ownership. In a large codebase it can easily happen that a large % of PRs changes something you're a codeowner for.

Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Post by blharr »

sensanaty wrote: post #181

Day 50 trillion of begging Github for a functional notification system so I can stop receiving infinite numbers of emails from all the bots and similar things commenting on PRs. Also being designated a codeowner in a large repo, the number of notifications I get daily from the number of PRs is fucking absurd, with no way of turning them off. Drives me up the wall daily. If a colleague doesn't straight up send me a PR…

It's a workaround, but why not use email filters for this?

Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Post by withinboredom »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #178
hamandcheese wrote: post #48

A GitHub feature I think would be really handy is suggesting duplicate issues when writing up a new issues. Many projects ask that you search for already reported tickets, but GitHub's current search isn't great if you aren't sure what you are looking for.

If we're talking issues (i.e. reports from external parties, like OSS users, and not internally defined tasks ), then care is needed to avoid it working out like the Stack Overflow experience. What is it, you ask? [Closed; Locked: not constructive; Duplicate of: #1701, #74656] Users will fight such things for a simple reason: every larger OSS project has tons of open[0] issues that look like duplicates, and perhaps e…

I refuse to work with projects with a stale bot. As if ignoring an issue will just magically resolve it. I also refuse to use products with a stale bot once I discover it is used; they are usually bug ridden due to uncovered issues being ignored.

Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Post by [deleted] »

hnlmorg wrote: post #66
hamandcheese wrote: post #48

A GitHub feature I think would be really handy is suggesting duplicate issues when writing up a new issues. Many projects ask that you search for already reported tickets, but GitHub's current search isn't great if you aren't sure what you are looking for.

Completely agree with this suggestion. Ive often wondered why GitHub hasn’t introduced this feature because it feels like a really obvious thing to introduce and something that would add an immense amount of value to a lot of projects.

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Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Post by sensanaty »

blharr wrote: post #207
sensanaty wrote: post #181

Day 50 trillion of begging Github for a functional notification system so I can stop receiving infinite numbers of emails from all the bots and similar things commenting on PRs. Also being designated a codeowner in a large repo, the number of notifications I get daily from the number of PRs is fucking absurd, with no way of turning them off. Drives me up the wall daily. If a colleague doesn't straight up send me a PR…

It's a workaround, but why not use email filters for this?

Well I do (basically 99% of github emails are auto-purged from my email inbox), but the problem is that the github platform itself on the notifications page is unusable. It'd be nice if I could use it!
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