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Fun to see this up here. Originally when I built this there was some discussion on whether it made any sense to show a global view; most people are just going t
by holman 10y ago
Fun to see this up here. Originally when I built this there was some discussion on whether it made any sense to show a global view; most people are just going to use the issues dashboard to look at their own issues, obviously. Honestly, I just thought it was cool to have filters across the whole site, so I left it in (which was only an option given how quick it was to calculate and return these results in Elasticsearch — that's also part of the reason the numbers are fluctuating a bit, as some have pointed out here).
Still wish more people knew about this dashboard view into Issues. Even though it's now a prominent link in the header, I don't think the page got to be something I was really happy with — most of the work was done in the final week before we shipped Issues, so it was somewhat an afterthought. There's a ton of power in there, but it's hidden away behind an arcane syntax that I, the creator of the damn thing, can't really remember at this point, two years later, ha. Still dig the overall motivation behind the page, though!
- willvarfar 10y agoIssues could be integrated much better with forks. If I have a fork of something, I should see not just issues people post in my repo, but issues people post in other forks. These are differentiated visually, and perhaps don't trigger notifications. When someone fixes the issue in another fork, I should see a 'patch pending' kind of thing, and get a notification.
- robbiemitchell 10y agoThis might be another reason why Holman thinks branches are better than forks. cf. https://twitter.com/holman/status/661365207143333888 https://twitter.com/holman/status/661365207143333888, https://twitter.com/holman/status/661357354827448321 https://twitter.com/holman/status/661357354827448321
- pavel_lishin 10y agoHe seems to think that this is only the case for organizations, not open source projects: https://twitter.com/holman/status/661384740927242240 https://twitter.com/holman/status/661384740927242240
- nathan-muir 10y ago> Still wish more people knew about this dashboard view into Issues I only discovered the dashboard recently after using github for years! Having the overview was actually the missing piece in getting control of my workload & priorities. -- So Thank you!
- tanepiper 10y agoThe real question here is not why this is here, but why "explore" was removed (I'm aware I can just go to /explore however and if it is somewhere, it's not clear where). Github is still hard for project discovery.
- Goopplesoft 10y agoYeah they hid it under your user icon when you log in, which is bizarre since exploring is one of the best ways to be 'social' on github.