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Using checkboxes in GitHub issues is my secret weapon. There is no way to mark an issue as done or glaze over the details that way. Checklists in general are a
by 3pt14159 6y ago
Using checkboxes in GitHub issues is my secret weapon. There is no way to mark an issue as done or glaze over the details that way. Checklists in general are a great thing. I wish there was a startup that made community sourced checklists for common tasks like opening up a PR or writing an email asking for a raise.
- will_pseudonym 6y agoChecklists also save lives! > But a year after surgical teams at eight hospitals adopted a 19-item checklist, the average patient death rate fell more than 40 percent and the rate of complications fell by about a third, the researchers reported. https://web.archive.org/web/20151103232100/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/health/20surgery.html https://web.archive.org/web/20151103232100/http://www.nytime...
- tekknik 6y agoon the flip side of this, there’s those of us who hate the superfluous (opinion) processes that seem only to slow down, not speed up. PRs don’t need checklists IMO. If they do maybe your team is too large.
- 3pt14159 6y agoI think a little checklist would help me remember things that are easy to forget, like updating documentation or making sure that a test exists to reproduce the issue. That said, at the end of the day tools exist to help us, not slow us down. If they is a small PR that fixes a typo then I want to be trusted to skip the checklist completely.