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A Better GitHub Issue Queue

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12 pointsdikunlun11 comments

I like the alternative interface for managing issues, and it is nice that I could use this for some public repos that get a lot of issues and pull requests.

One nice enhancement would be a simple toggle for hiding labels with no issues.

The lightbox approach to presenting an issue seemed a little funky - mostly in that it just feels like it is not a "real" part of the interface since it is shown in a small column. I also noticed some issues with URLs overflowing the lightbox.

Speaking of GitHub Issues - the biggest, simple change I can imagine GitHub making to Issues is allow repository owners to add a small readme to the New Issue page. It would help a lot in explaining what a good bug report looks like and where else to get help.

I believe you can update what labels you wanna see by selecting them in the setting pane on the right (as well as re-ordering them).

As for the lightbox part, there's indeed a bit more work in representing the content of the issues.

Yes, I found those checkboxes. However, I can see two use-cases:

    1. Adding issues: I want to see everything
    2. Triaging: I only want to see labels with issues

Thus, most of the time I want only those with issues, or all of them.

That's a valid point, probably more brainstorming in the best approach to render the first landing on a repo as it is what effectively is at stake; instead of landing on a blank page the choice was made to display it all, letting you transform the kanban to a dashboard that best fits your need, later visits would re-use your pre-saved board.

For the readme on new issues, I think it is automated by simply adding a 'CONTRIBUTING[.md|.rst|.txt]' to you repository. You can see this happening for celery (https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/new)

So many magic files flying around ;)

Really cool, but it seems I don't have authorization to manage the issues of someone else's repo on which I am a collaborator. Maybe just a limitation of Github's api?

Another similar project is Huboard. Demo at https://huboard.com/captn3m0/potion/

In addition to Huboard and Octokan, there are a few more of these "Front-end for Github Issues" projects:

TaskTub: http://www.tasktub.com/authentication/login Waffle.io: https://waffle.io/ BugHub: http://bughubapp.com/ (though since abandoned?)

Sprintly also has awesome Github integration, but they are explicitly NOT a front-end for Github Issues, so works best with private repos for larger teams (imho). They integrate well with Github, not necessarily Github Issues (a slight, but key difference).

This is exactly what I've been waiting for, once the multiple repos feature has been added.

I like the idea, but the server appears to be melting right now. :)

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