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Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#61

Post by markdog12 »

elliotec wrote: post #55
captn3m0 wrote: post #17

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

I agree with you that the pick up in pace of Github's lacking features has been phenomenal, and I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. Github is the clear industry leader, has been since essentially it's creation. It is very fast and feature-filled. It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see. Since the open letter to Github with the complain…

> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab

- Open Source

- Free private repos

- Free self-host (edit to add "Free")

- Everything in one spot (repos, ci, review, coding environment, etc...)

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#62

Post by AsyncAwait »

elliotec wrote: post #55
captn3m0 wrote: post #17

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

I agree with you that the pick up in pace of Github's lacking features has been phenomenal, and I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. Github is the clear industry leader, has been since essentially it's creation. It is very fast and feature-filled. It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see. Since the open letter to Github with the complain…

> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog.

and self-hosting :-)

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by dasmoth »

There's some nice stuff here -- probably some of it that I'll use -- but most of this is targeted at organisations (and in particular, managers and administrators) rather than individual developers.

Understandable -- it's clearly companies that are paying the bills these days -- but a little disappointing given the extent to which GitHub got big by attracting lone hackers and little open source projects.

If somebody else manages to claim the small-scale end if the market it could eventually spell trouble for GitHub.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#64

Post by RyJones »

mwarkentin wrote: post #49
jedberg wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contact everyone, tell them they have a week, then tick the box. If they didn't do it within the week it's either not important to them or they'll add it right quick after you tick the box.

We have some "shared" users for things like bots, etc.. wonder how to deal with that since we don't want to enable MFA for them. Otherwise I'd be all over this..

This is a huge issue for us at the Linux Foundation. Infra accounts make enforcing MFA for orgs impossible

Even if I could do classes of accounts. Owners and admins, MFA required. Users (bots) that just update CI status, not required.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#65

Post by kuschku »

elliotec wrote: post #55
captn3m0 wrote: post #17

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

I agree with you that the pick up in pace of Github's lacking features has been phenomenal, and I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. Github is the clear industry leader, has been since essentially it's creation. It is very fast and feature-filled. It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see. Since the open letter to Github with the complain…

> It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see.

And that’s exactly why you shouldn’t use it.

> Since the open letter to Github with the complaints of feature requests,

This, and the answer from GitLab to that letter, is what made GitHub move in the first place.

You need competition for a healthy market.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by eyelidlessness »

bowmessage wrote: post #15

Is this the death of Trello?

I'd switch instantly if:

1. There was a faster and more contextual way to edit issues on a project.

2. There was a way to set up an opinionated workflow where e.g. opening a PR against an issue moves the issue to "Review"; closing said PR moves issue to "Done" and closes it; closing an issue directly moves it to "Done" and vice versa. Without this, there's way too much interaction required for even GitHub's own preferred workflow.

3. Automatic bidirectional linking between issue/PR on the project board. (Honestly haven't had a chance to see if it does this, but will on the next PR I open.)

4. Automatically pre-fill a backlog with existing issues.

5. A project could span multiple repositories (e.g. for tracking user stories which might be addressed in an API or frontend repo, or both). We also track non-dev work on our Trello board, and a project per repo doesn't support this.

6. Filtering.

Edit... Also nice to have: ability to reference a checklist item in a link from PR to issue, check it on merge, and so on.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#68

Post by Dobbs »

AsyncAwait wrote: post #62
elliotec wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you that the pick up in pace of Github's lacking features has been phenomenal, and I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. Github is the clear industry leader, has been since essentially it's creation. It is very fast and feature-filled. It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see. Since the open letter to Github with the complain…

> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. and self-hosting :-)

github has self-hosting. It is a little pricey but that is not a product differentiator.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by captn3m0 »

mstade wrote: post #40
captn3m0 wrote: post #17

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

It looks like enforcing 2fa in an org (finally!) means anyone who doesn't have 2fa will be booted out (included whoever may be paying for it at the time) with an email explaining why. I'm afraid to tick the box because of this. :o/

Currently, we tell every new employee on joining the org to enable it, and review it a week later to ensure that they followed through.

It is the exact same with Google Apps as well (where you add the user to the 2faexceptions group and review+remove them a week later).

I was ready to flip the switch, till I realized that a third-party bot account in our organization doesn't have 2fa. Dropped them a mail, hoping to flip it by tomorrow (100% non-bot users have it enabled, so no one is getting auto-kicked).

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#70

Post by lucideer »

elliotec wrote: post #55
captn3m0 wrote: post #17

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

I agree with you that the pick up in pace of Github's lacking features has been phenomenal, and I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. Github is the clear industry leader, has been since essentially it's creation. It is very fast and feature-filled. It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see. Since the open letter to Github with the complain…

As well as the sibling comments here, one could also argue Gitlab deserves at least partial credit for motivating this pick up in pace.
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