Comment by athenot
10 years ago
I have mixed feelings about these requests. Yes it would be nice to have these extra features in GitHub. Its issue handling has always been a bit light on the workflow side—but IMHO has made up for it with a pleasant way to organize conversation around issues. The simple and smooth UX is part of what makes GitHub so great.
For the opposite side of the spectrum, there's the Bitbucket+Jira combo. It is customizable to a PM's heart's content, and in the process can become a mess of a tool.
I have mixed feelings about custom fields, I'd like Github UI to become as burden as Jira, but in the other hand 'reactions' as Slack or Facebook are implementing would make much easier to follow a discussion without so much scroll down.