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Maybe they should switch to bugzilla or phabricator or jira or something. Github issues don't scale well to complex distributed projects. Chrome just open sourc

Maybe they should switch to bugzilla or phabricator or jira or something. Github issues don't scale well to complex distributed projects. Chrome just open sourced their monorail project that's designed for this kind of project too. Lots of great choices out there.

muricula 10y ago
Atom is made largely by GitHub. You're right a more sophisticated issue tracker may be in order, but I don't think they'd do that.
- Touche 10y ago
  It seems strange to me that Atom is experiencing the same sort of troubles that occur with large multi-project projects and they don't seem to be aware that their tooling should accommodate that. One thing that is blatantly obvious would be a organization wide issue tracker. That alone would alleviate the "which project do I file this against" questions and give the project owners an easy way to see the issues for all of their projects. I work on a few projects that are actually multi-org, so even that wouldn't be enough for me, but would be a darn good start.
  - automathematics 10y ago
    This. Org wide issue tracker (and the ability to create new labels while creating a new issue) would solve 99% of my github workflow complaints.
  - Can_Not 10y ago
    > organization wide issue tracker Does anything like github/bitbucket/gitlab support this?
    - sytse 10y ago
      GitLab allows you to show issues from a milestone in multiple projects (but one group). See http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/milestones.html#groups-and-milestones http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/milestones.html#groups-and...
maw 10y ago
My thought too. Maybe it'll be an impetus to make their issue tracking software a bit more powerful, a bit more serious. Might be optimistic, but I'd really like to see it, especially as Github's clones copy the feature.
watersb 10y ago
Best way for GitHub issue tracker to improve is to get GH engineers to use is on a complex, distributed project?

muricula 10y ago

Atom is made largely by GitHub. You're right a more sophisticated issue tracker may be in order, but I don't think they'd do that.

Touche 10y ago
It seems strange to me that Atom is experiencing the same sort of troubles that occur with large multi-project projects and they don't seem to be aware that their tooling should accommodate that. One thing that is blatantly obvious would be a organization wide issue tracker. That alone would alleviate the "which project do I file this against" questions and give the project owners an easy way to see the issues for all of their projects. I work on a few projects that are actually multi-org, so even that wouldn't be enough for me, but would be a darn good start.
- automathematics 10y ago
  This. Org wide issue tracker (and the ability to create new labels while creating a new issue) would solve 99% of my github workflow complaints.
- Can_Not 10y ago
  > organization wide issue tracker Does anything like github/bitbucket/gitlab support this?
  - sytse 10y ago
    GitLab allows you to show issues from a milestone in multiple projects (but one group). See http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/milestones.html#groups-and-milestones http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/milestones.html#groups-and...

maw 10y ago

My thought too. Maybe it'll be an impetus to make their issue tracking software a bit more powerful, a bit more serious. Might be optimistic, but I'd really like to see it, especially as Github's clones copy the feature.

watersb 10y ago

Best way for GitHub issue tracker to improve is to get GH engineers to use is on a complex, distributed project?