Questions for @mariorod

[AndreaGriffiths11]

Questions about GitHub Issues? @mariorod has the answers!

[Hanse00]

I noticed the new project type is currently only available for orgs or users, not repos: Are there any plans for when that might become available?

[francisfuzz]

Creating and accessing projects from the repository tab is on GitHub's public roadmap for Q4 2021 – Oct-Dec.

[Hanse00]

Thanks Francis!

[Pike]

related, teams can have projects, too? I see the button, but didn't try it.

Are those gonna get the new features, too? Would allow some teams in an org to spear-head adoption.

[francisfuzz]

related, teams can have projects, too? I see the button, but didn't try it.

Yes. Our GitHub Docs covers how to manage team access for organization project boards, bet it the current or the beta version:

• Managing team access to an organization project board
• Managing access to projects (beta)

[bagatka]

Looking through the repositories and their issues, it is possible to find a project for Open Source activity by using repo_url/contribute. Is there any UI for that? It would be great to have a page with projects that can be interesting for you (by filters) containing good first issues

[francisfuzz]

While I don't think there's a UI that shows all repository's possible contribution opportunities, you could visit the GitHub Explore page to see a curated list of your past contributions, stars, and other activities are used to offer personalized recommendations for projects you might like (and could further surface opportunities by appending /contribute to the end of the repository's URL).

I recall our team wrote this post on how to browse good first issues to start contributing to open source that might be worth checking out, too!

[indeyets]

Will it be possible to have multiline "cards" in new Projects like we currently have in "old" Projects? This is SOOOO useful for initial planning

[francisfuzz]

Live response from @mariorod - "Don't want to reveal anything just yet. We're exploring different things there right now. We just saw Design team that sent a mock of it and I was dancing overall when I saw it, and we're excited."

[andrekyanga]

noticed the new project type is currently only available for orgs or users, not repos: Are there any plans for when that might become available? @AndreaGriffiths11

[francisfuzz]

xref: #45 (reply in thread)

[aergonaut]

Will custom fields be available for Pull Requests as well as Issues?

[francisfuzz]

Live response from @mariorod: "I don't see why we don't extend the metadata. Remember when I said you can add PRs? You can add anything over here as a note, as an example. On that end, you can add metadata in the table, and you can interact with it further. This is a continuation of what we're already doing, for sure!"

[nicksloan]

Will you add a field to the GraphQL Issue type to navigate from an Issue back up to the new-style projects that contain it? Currently you can only descend from projectNext down to issues.

[scoates]

Hi! Are new projects available to GitHub Apps auth (instead of personal access tokens) now? Do we still need to send the projects_next headers? Will new projects be available via the REST API (instead of just the GraphQL API)?

[ZOCIO]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[francisfuzz]

Live response From @mariorod - "Yes, it is. Starting today, we turned this on so you can use it for GitHub Apps. Give it a try! If you have feedback, let us know."

[azenMatt]

You can also get rid of the project_next headers from today!

[barnagoz]

Hi! Is there any way to watch this board in VS Code?

[francisfuzz]

While I can't speak to the VS Code portion, it's worth noting that this feature is programmatically accessible via our GraphQL API -- I wouldn't be surprised if/when folks use that to integrate it into other services and apps (like, VS Code).

[maxime-rainville]

We run an OS project with ~80 repos, some of them across multiple organizations. We currently use ZenHub.

Does this new tool work across repos and across orgs?

[scoates]

If it hasn't changed from the closed beta, projects work across repos, but within a single organization.

[DevMittal04]

[francisfuzz]

Welcome! At this time, it's called Projects (beta).

[Lybecker]

Can you show the issue task hierarchy relationship in the table or board view?

[francisfuzz]

@mariorod's live response: "We cannot yet. But, showing the screen again, we're experimenting with the way features and tasks are scoped in this way. We're exploring this in our backlog as a part of our work."

[Hanse00]

GitHub Gantt charts ❤️

[rainersigwald]

Is there a plan to have a rule to "add all new PRs in repo X to this project"?

[jonthenerd]

Will there be licensing or user-role changes to enable non-developers to use GitHub (think Product Owners, Scrum Masters)? These folks don't need GitHub Advanced Security or edit content in repos. I can forsee them editing a wiki though, which could trigger recognizing that user as needing GH Advanced Security.

[artemsaveliev]

@jonthenerd GitHub Advanced Security billing applies to repositories where the feature is enabled. If your non-developers only contribute to repositories without GHAS enabled (like wiki repositories), you shouldn't need extra licenses.
For more details re. how GHAS billing works see https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-advanced-security/about-billing-for-github-advanced-security

[sigurjonl]

Is there a way to see different teams in the insights? And perhaps how they connect internally?

[francisfuzz]

From the summary of Insights: Fully integrated dashboards & reports for GHEC, this might be relevant?

This release brings Insights analytics to GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) customers, and does so in a first-class, integrated manner. Key metrics will be incorporated into the “Insights” views for both organizations and repositories, providing greater visibility into important measures of team process and productivity. Bringing Insights into the core GitHub experience will also enable integration of charts and reports into project Readmes, issues, pull requests, and discussions.

(Also relevant: tracking issue for Project insights)

I couldn't find any other mentions of this in the rest of the public roadmap. 😅

[mmitrik]

@sigurjonl Can you elaborate on what you mean by "see different teams"? In some of the demos that were shown, the "group by" feature was used to show how project items could be grouped by "areas" which some folks might map to teams. Are you looking for a chart that shows how work is broken down by team/area? Or perhaps, a trend of the work scoped to a single team/area?

[fostfox]

Hello! Is there some integration between GitHub Issues and JIRA Issues?

[francisfuzz]

Heya! There is: https://github.com/marketplace/jira-software-github

[fostfox]

@francisfuzz, Cool, thank you!

[alexcnichols]

👋 Dropping the links here to the public roadmap and feedback discussions that Mario mentioned! 💬

• GitHub public roadmap (Beta) > GitHub Issues
• GitHub public feedback discussions > Issues Feedback

[ap0phi5]

Something I noticed today was that there wasn't an update on GitHub Issue forms - it's a small feature of GH Issues, but would be really useful for us. ​https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/syntax-for-issue-forms
This is still in public beta, only for public repos. We are really keen to have this available internally on our enterprise account. Is this going to be available anytime soon?

[timoyates]

@ap0phi5 we're starting to test this out with customers as part of a private alpha. You're welcome to share your org name and I can get in touch with the team to get you added (just be sure the admin knows it's coming 😆)

[ap0phi5]

Hi @timoyates - its ok, I'm the admin :D - the org name is lbg-support

[timoyates]

Done! Please be sure to share your feedback! We're all ears 🙌

[ap0phi5]

Will do, we have a great innersource community that we can try this out on and I recon it will give a good perspective. 👍🏻