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by antics 518 days ago
Yes this is one of the reasons this discussion is so tricky. I just believe that if I maintain a popular project on GitHub I should not be automatically consigned to worst-in-class experiences for Issues and code review. I understand this is mildly controversial but I have had maintainer status on a few top 0.01% GitHub repositories and I have seen tools that do not suck, and so my opinion is that a better world is possible.

Again, I say all of this entirely with love. I love GitHub. I have used GitHub since I started programming. I want them to win.
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habosa 518 days ago
> automatically consigned to worst-in-class experiences

You said it perfectly. This is why there are a lot of people willing to create better experiences on top of GitHub’s API.

I created CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) to improve GitHub’s code review and there’s also Graphite, CodePeer, Reviewable, and others doing a great job.

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TeMPOraL 518 days ago
Any of them support dependencies between issues? Without it, it's still all worst-in-class experience for the purpose of managing work. Yes, this is distinct from issue tracking, which is an input, and usually external, but people seem to have this weird habit of trying to manage software projects using GitHub or GitLab issues.
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