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

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Post by akoboldfrying »

StableAlkyne wrote: post #10
Calzifer wrote: post #9

Great, a few more decades and it might become a usable bugtracker. What's next on the list? Maybe priority/severity or status/resolution? I helped on a quite large open source project for some time and loved working with Bugzilla. The announced switch to Github for that project was one reason I lost interest. I even prefer to work with a well administrated(!) Jira over Github issues.

> Maybe priority/severity or status/resolution? That's already possible with the tag system. At least, that's the most common use I see for repos that decide to use tags. How do you envision this differing?

Are you thinking of labels?

I only know GitHub "tags" to be the raw git branch-that-never-moves kind.

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

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Post by ffsm8 »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #41
StableAlkyne wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe priority/severity or status/resolution? That's already possible with the tag system. At least, that's the most common use I see for repos that decide to use tags. How do you envision this differing?

Are you thinking of labels? I only know GitHub "tags" to be the raw git branch-that-never-moves kind.

Totally off topic, but Tags can be moved too. ;) It's mostly a convention that we use annotated tags (a tag that also creates a commit) and don't move them

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

#44

Post by SSLy »

voidfunc wrote: post #32
globular-toast wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not how it works. It is going the way of Jira. What you mean is if it keeps going that way it will be Jira. Until we get to the point we can decide things are finished and move on to other problems, everything will turn into Jira eventually. It's like entropy. We have the power to stop it, but it wouldn't guarantee those sweet, sweet growth targets.

The problem is Microsoft has two products in this space but everyone hates Azure DevOps which is supposed to be a JIRA competitor and GitHub is where all the momentum is. They'd love to ditch having to maintain ADO and GitHub long term but that means crapifying GitHub so they can migrate their ADO customers. At the same time they're hoping to pull Atlassian customers that use JIRA and GitHub to ditch the latter and j…

ditch the former?

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

#46

Post by weinzierl »

edflsafoiewq wrote: post #45
weinzierl wrote: post #43

I, for my part, would be happy if they could make basic search work for a start. Will the advanced search finally allow us to find the most basic things reliably?

What doesn't work?

If you search code for a string you know is there it is completely git or miss if it is found. Always has been like that.

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144250

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

#47

Post by ronnier »

SSLy wrote: post #44
voidfunc wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is Microsoft has two products in this space but everyone hates Azure DevOps which is supposed to be a JIRA competitor and GitHub is where all the momentum is. They'd love to ditch having to maintain ADO and GitHub long term but that means crapifying GitHub so they can migrate their ADO customers. At the same time they're hoping to pull Atlassian customers that use JIRA and GitHub to ditch the latter and j…

ditch the former?

I really dislike the use of former and latter. It’s confusing, people get it wrong, and it can be interpreted at least two different ways to make it ambiguous.

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

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Post by hamandcheese »

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.

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

#49

Post by hamandcheese »

paradox460 wrote: post #26

Not bad, but I still have to say that zenhub does it better Used that at an old job and it was the only project management software I didn't grow to hate. Fast, "built into" GitHub, and adds other value across the site, I miss it now at my current jira gig

Big +1, I used zenhub at one of my first jobs and I miss it to this day.
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