I Have Issues &

I May Need to Use Waffle.io

(GitHub Issues & Waffle.io)

GitHub Issues

In a Nutshell

keep track of tasks, enhancements, and bugs for your projects

 

An Issue

All the important information!

Milestones

 

  • Beta Launch

    • File bugs that you need to fix before you can launch the beta of your project. Great way to make sure you aren’t missing anything.

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  • October Sprint

    • File issues that you’d like to work on in October. Great way to focus your efforts when there’s a lot to do.

  • Redesign

    • File issues related to redesigning your project. Great way to collect ideas on what to work on.

Notifications, @mentions, and References

  • notify GitHub users & teams, and cross-connect issues to each other

Using 

GitHub Flavored Markdown

Notifications

Plan on receiving a lot of notifications?  

  • web + email notifications for Participating 
  • web notifications for Watching.

 

@ mentions

Not only like Twitter

/cc syntax (an abbreviation for carbon copy) to include people in issues.

You can configure how you receive notifications in your settings.

Create a Team- browser-bugs under the @myorg organization, you can reference the team with @mentions:

/cc @myorg/browser-bugs

This will send notifications to every member of that team.

References

On the timeline of the referenced issue, a link will appear. 

References

  • Issue in another repository? Just include the repository before the name like kneath/example-project#42.

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  • reference from commits. Include the issue number inside of the commit message.

prefacing your commits with “Fixes”, “Fixed”, “Fix”, “Closes”, “Closed”, or “Close” when the commit is merged into master, it will also automatically close the issue

Resources

Waffle.io

(Kanban Boards)

Brief History of Kanban

Kanban Board

Issues to Board

Waffle.io board

Gimme a Org and Repository

Resources

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