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GitHub issues has been a godsend. People don't often take the time to do detailed write-ups while investigating, but when they do... amazing. Fountains of know

by tomgs 6y ago

GitHub issues has been a godsend. People don't often take the time to do detailed write-ups while investigating, but when they do... amazing. Fountains of knowledge hidden in closed issues. Speaking of which - especially in the ops / systems side of things - if you're stuck on an issue, and you've got a gut feeling some repo will be a good source of truth for that issue, search for keywords in the open AND THE CLOSED issues of that repo. So. Much. Stuff.

AzzieElbab 6y ago
I second that. Also, in my ecosystem - gutter, discord, slack
fortnum 6y ago
That particular feature is mostly for bug reports however, not so much for general questions. Also, where would you find the Github page for Android's Room for example?
b0afc375b5 6y ago
> search for keywords in the open AND THE CLOSED issues of that repo Yep, every time I visit the github issues page I immediately remove `is:open` when searching.
- layer8 6y ago
  It’s a mystery to me why is:open is the default. In most situations you also want any existing “closed” matches to be listed in the results.
  - hashkb 6y ago
    It's optimized for developers working on the thing. It'd be cool if the default changed based on your level of access (or settings)
mslip 6y ago
This! This is saved me so many times when I’ve exhausted stackoverflow.
melenaboija 6y ago
When dealing with advice for open source projects my steps are: - Google and go to first SO answers (I totally gave up on asking for advice there, is an old discussion but with low karma forget to ask, it will get closed immediately so you have to be lucky that someone with good reputation made a similar question) - HN search engine and go to the comments of some post related to what I need. It might take some more time but some of the comments have been gold to me - Project mail list. I have found people willing to help there - Finally my last discovery, as others, Github issues. And I am talking about searching and asking. I have lately been susprised how the main maintainer of a big project from one of the FAANG answered doubts, and to me personally helped me with a question such as "I don't know how to start with this", literally. I guess there will be lots of different experiences here, but to me it would be something like stay away of SO and try to find more specific forums for your need.

by tomgs 6y ago

AzzieElbab 6y ago

I second that. Also, in my ecosystem - gutter, discord, slack

fortnum 6y ago

That particular feature is mostly for bug reports however, not so much for general questions. Also, where would you find the Github page for Android's Room for example?

b0afc375b5 6y ago

> search for keywords in the open AND THE CLOSED issues of that repo Yep, every time I visit the github issues page I immediately remove `is:open` when searching.

layer8 6y ago
It’s a mystery to me why is:open is the default. In most situations you also want any existing “closed” matches to be listed in the results.
- hashkb 6y ago
  It's optimized for developers working on the thing. It'd be cool if the default changed based on your level of access (or settings)

mslip 6y ago

This! This is saved me so many times when I’ve exhausted stackoverflow.

melenaboija 6y ago

When dealing with advice for open source projects my steps are: - Google and go to first SO answers (I totally gave up on asking for advice there, is an old discussion but with low karma forget to ask, it will get closed immediately so you have to be lucky that someone with good reputation made a similar question) - HN search engine and go to the comments of some post related to what I need. It might take some more time but some of the comments have been gold to me - Project mail list. I have found people willing to help there - Finally my last discovery, as others, Github issues. And I am talking about searching and asking. I have lately been susprised how the main maintainer of a big project from one of the FAANG answered doubts, and to me personally helped me with a question such as "I don't know how to start with this", literally. I guess there will be lots of different experiences here, but to me it would be something like stay away of SO and try to find more specific forums for your need.