GitHub now has Issue Attachments • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#51

Post by timr » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 11:30 PM UTC

Glad to see they're working on parts of the product that affect developers again.

Now, if they'd add sortable ticket priorities, fix the janky UI problems (like the thing where you can get stuck in the useless view where tags aren't selectable), and add other basic features like ticket up-voting and support for teams, it might become a genuinely useful tool for non-toy projects.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#52

Post by jQueryIsAwesome » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 12:11 AM UTC

sheraz wrote: post #36

I read that as github now has attachement issues. I'll take the downvotes. it was worth it

One should be able to post a silly post every 100 seemingly-relevant posts.

Also the top post in this article is just someone calling this a "Christmas present"; at least you made me chuckle.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#53

Post by eli » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 12:11 AM UTC

tanoku wrote: post #48

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.

Neat!

(Windows has built-in shortcuts to screenshot to clipboard too: PrtScr grabs the whole screen, Alt+PrtScr grabs just the active window)

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#54

Post by RKearney » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 1:14 AM UTC

eli wrote: post #53

tanoku wrote: post #48

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.

Neat! (Windows has built-in shortcuts to screenshot to clipboard too: PrtScr grabs the whole screen, Alt+PrtScr grabs just the active window)

Much easier than:

    Command + Control + Shift + 3

and

    Command + Control + Shift + 4 + Spacebar + Mouse Click

in my opinion.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#55

Post by steevdave » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 1:39 AM UTC

hunvreus wrote: post #50

dbaupp wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Can you keep pictures private on imgur?

Yes you can. It works well as long as it's up but they have a tendency to go down randomly.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#56

Post by wyck » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 2:10 AM UTC

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.

Have you ever had a manager/user/whatever person issue a screenshot of an issue using markdown? It doesn't work. Github is supposed to be for teams too (private repo's), and this brings it 1 step closer, but still far from what other services offer for issue tracking.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#57

Post by lifeisstillgood » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 2:27 AM UTC

I am sure the Api supported this earlier - in fact I wrote a wrapper script for it on lifeisstillgood/githubkoolaid

This I guess is the UI release

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#58

Post by siong1987 » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 3:12 AM UTC

RKearney wrote: post #54

eli wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neat! (Windows has built-in shortcuts to screenshot to clipboard too: PrtScr grabs the whole screen, Alt+PrtScr grabs just the active window)

Much easier than: Command + Control + Shift + 3 and Command + Control + Shift + 4 + Spacebar + Mouse Click in my opinion.

I don't think that you need `Control`.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#59

Post by X-Istence » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 4:14 AM UTC

RKearney wrote: post #54

eli wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neat! (Windows has built-in shortcuts to screenshot to clipboard too: PrtScr grabs the whole screen, Alt+PrtScr grabs just the active window)

Much easier than: Command + Control + Shift + 3 and Command + Control + Shift + 4 + Spacebar + Mouse Click in my opinion.

Feel free to change them in System Preferences to your own liking.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#60

Post by X-Istence » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 4:17 AM UTC

JonLim wrote: post #33

dbaupp wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

+1 for Imgur. Hosted all of my images for our GitHub Game Off entry[1] README file there. Always a solid solution if you want any sort of image hosting. [1]: https://github.com/TARGS/game-off-2012

Do note that imgur will delete images if they haven't been viewed in 6 months.

http://imgur.com/faq#long