alt.hn

1/16/2025 at 2:34:28 PM

GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

 https://github.blog/changelog/2025-01-13-evolving-github-issues-public-preview/

by julius-fx

1/16/2025 at 6:23:23 PM

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.

by Calzifer

1/16/2025 at 8:46:14 PM

> 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?

by StableAlkyne

1/16/2025 at 4:42:01 PM

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).

by Wicher

1/16/2025 at 2:56:35 PM

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.

by kkaatii

1/16/2025 at 4:11:32 PM

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?

by WorldMaker

1/16/2025 at 5:38:19 PM

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

by trallnag

1/17/2025 at 2:40:30 AM

Wow i didn't know that.

by kkaatii

1/16/2025 at 11:17:52 PM

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

by decide1000

1/17/2025 at 8:23:44 AM

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.)

by whataguy

1/16/2025 at 2:39:22 PM

Nice additions - Buganizer has had these for years.

Good that issue types can be user defined.

by grajaganDev

1/16/2025 at 5:06:42 PM

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

by tw12312831

1/16/2025 at 5:56:19 PM

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

by vivzkestrel

1/16/2025 at 10:11:22 PM

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?

by bnewman85