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GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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.

a day agoCalzifer

> 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?

a day agoStableAlkyne

Great, but I would've been happier if I'd had some dead simple dependency tracking 10 years ago. Just enough to create metabug functionality with. Like Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis etc have sported for at least two deades. I've always wondered why Github didn't have such basic functionality. (No, just the ability to reference other issues is not enough; I want to get an email for the metabug when all blocking issues are resolved).

a day agoWicher

The sub-issue structure seems much better than Jira's approach where everything has to fit into a hierarchy. Then it becomes hard to align on the definition of a certain level in the hierarchy.

This create-a-subissue-when-needed way is more sensible.

2 days agokkaatii

It's also not that different from what people have been using Task Lists for today: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor...

I think that's maybe my biggest question is what the interop looks like between Task Lists and Sub-Issues. Is there a "one-click upgrade" yet? What if I want to copy a list of Sub-Issues as Markdown Task List to copy into a Discussion or a Wiki somewhere?

a day agoWorldMaker

You can use a single type of issue in Jira and just rely on linking them together

a day agotrallnag

Wow i didn't know that.

a day agokkaatii

I am not sure if I am going to like this feature. I miss the simplicity. Guess those times re over.

a day agodecide1000

They also changed the design of issue comments, but seemingly reverted it back to the old design in production? (If you check the first video on the blog you can see e.g. the profile picture inside of the comment, while the old and current version has it on the outside.)

19 hours agowhataguy

Nice additions - Buganizer has had these for years.

Good that issue types can be user defined.

2 days agograjaganDev

GitHub was better before MSFT took over. MSFT introduces bureaucratic fluff, hierarchies and loads of unnecessary complexities. How about adding a registry?

a day agotw12312831

also let people sort repositories by the ratio of open requests to closed requests, average amount of time to respond on an issue

a day agovivzkestrel

Let us comment on the commit messages and create a better UI for editing messages for teams that take git history seriously, please. Are there no linux kernel devs at msft who can make this happen?