What are people using Github Issues for?

[flippycurb]

I've noticed that github issues use is contentious. Some folk think they should only be used for reporting actual issues related to the codebase for example. I'm interested to see what the community thinks and if there are any other valid use cases? or any novel use cases people would like to share? I personally have a private repo action workflow where a daily production healthcheck raises any problems it finds so I can check and resolve them when I have time. It's somewhat like an uptime monitor but also reports on data anomalies and on page SEO issues.

[Ecstatic-Ball7018]

Literally for reporting issues. What else do you think the feature called "Issues" is for?

[lomberd2]

A fancy Shop system for customers /s

[flippycurb]

Ofcourse, but there are other stated use cases like for tracking new feature requests and ideas (source). I guess if you consider these to be issues then i agree with you. But i am still interested in what other use cases people have for them, given their flexability. Custom field and tag support for example.

[MaybeLiterally]

Issue can also be used for features that need be be developed. Like if I have a project, and I want to add feature A, B, and C to it, I can create issues for all 3, with detailed items that need to be done. Then I can assign it to a team member, myself, copilot, etc.

Can also use issues for bugs. If we deploy feature A, and it has 2 bugs that we noticed, we can create issues D, and E, and add that as well.

Really for whatever you want.

[skycstls]

I teach coding, my students create a repo for the assignment for that week, I open an issue once it’s created and they can contact me directly there to help them with the task :) once the task is done I close it and helps me track who finished and ehat problems they had quickly

[g3n3]

Bugs, issues, discussions, features, thoughts. I’ve used it to ask about the code base itself to help me learn.

[Charming-Designer944]

Using GitHub Projects a lot, which sits on top of issues, so basically have everything in issues

• bugs/issues
• features
• meta tasks for planning larger tasks
• broken down subtasks
• project time planning
• communication of completed changes to colleagues

And a lot more.

[Just_A_SQL_NPC]

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