Handling Bugs & Features Requests with Github Projects

ubernaut

@lafayette sounds good to me

LaFayette

To be a bit explicit, and a small role-call:

@Panther is going to be organizing the rules related topics.

@TheDog more focused on the feature requests

@ubernaut potentially helping on either/both

We might still need some more help on organizing the (non-rules related) bugs/problems. Overall, perhaps we're already off on a decent start now

ubernaut

@lafayette so i look this over again still not sure i understand what i'm supposed to do but maybe it will make sense once i try it

Panther

@ubernaut said in Handling Bugs & Features Requests with Github Projects:

@lafayette so i look this over again still not sure i understand what i'm supposed to do but maybe it will make sense once i try it

I can offer you to guide you a bit through, once I find some time ...

TheDog

I have enter my top 10 Feature Requests and will hopefully keep that topped up with a curated list for the Devs to pick from.

Currently it looks like this
https://github.com/orgs/triplea-game/projects/9

Not sure if people have access to that link so ...

I have ordered the two columns with Top ordered
Top=Hard/Long -- Bottom=Easy/Quick
hopefully that will help a Dev with limited time.
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Currently even I cannot access that link from here
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/projects?query=is%3Aopen

As only 2 Projects are listed, @LaFayette please fix

LaFayette

@thedog The difference is project can exist at an "organization" level and also at a "repository" level.

https://github.com/orgs/triplea-game/projects/ vs https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/projects

The repository level projects came first, hence there is that history behind them.

I think we probably should prefer org level projects, but I don't have a very strong opinion on that per se. It is confusing though that projects exist at different 'levels' like that. (In part it's an interface issue, should be more clear what is what)

With that said, no real recommendations here, just hopefully that clarifies what is going on. Happy to tweak things as would be helpful.

TheDog

@lafayette
As GitHub is already hard to navigate for most users, including me, I would prefer if the projects could have a pointer/view to where it currently is now, just like the current problem tracker does.

That way when a new user of GitHub looks to get

Releases - download manually
Raise an issue
Look at any Project its all there, or appears to be there

https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/projects
Appears to more for us users

and the 1st link appears move for Devs, well thats my perception.

LaFayette

Of note, I see that the 'problem tracker' project appears in both the game-client repo (specifically, triplea-game/triplea) and also at the 'org level', at 'triplea-game'.

There's no connotation for me that one is geared for dev's vs users. To some extent, they are geared for both I would say, perhaps more dev's as ideally someone would use the project board as a working board.

Releases - download manually

With luck this is going to go away to some extent. The release model changing will make the latest release available from the website for download.

I would prefer if the projects could have a pointer/view to where it currently is now

I don't quite understand what you mean here. Would you mind clarifying?

TheDog

@LaFayette
Yes I would like it to be like the 'project tracker' project to
appear in both the game-client repo (specifically, triplea-game/triplea) and also at the 'org level', at 'triplea-game', just like the 'problem tracker' project does.

LaFayette

@thedog Found it - there was a "link project" option. Should look good now

It looks like Github has changed projects a good bit from a couple years ago. Projects in github used to be repository level items (repositories are owned by organizations). Now projects look to be true organization level items with "links" to possibly zero or many repositories. The links create the previous behavior and adds some additional flexibility.