:clipboard: Guidelines & Workflow for people contributing to our project(s) on GitHub. Please :star: to confirm you've read & understood! :white_check_mark:
If you aren't interested in "Process", please ignore this. 👍
Process discussions are for people who want work in systematic/sustainable/scalable organisations that don't cave in under the weight of their technical/process debt the moment a new person joins the team ... most "startups" don't have "time" to think about this kind of stuff. That is, they don't have "time" until they realise how much time they are wasting by not having clearly defined/agreed processes... ⌛️ 🔥 💸 😭
Assigning issues (and pull requests) to someone specific is a good way of communicating with that person that you want them to take on the task, but sadly that often not "enough".
Its really unclear which issue(s) someone is currently working on when others can assign issues to them... so when that person goes on holiday it can be difficult to know what is "done" if the issue is still open.
I prefer the scenario where each person is only working on one thing at a time...
But I'm absolutely guilty of having way too many issues assigned to myself ...
Maybe I should tidy up my list before bringing up this discussion... 😉
The Ticking Clock
This will only "work" once we have "Time" working.
Time will use the GitHub API to check which issues have been assigned to you and start counting as soon as something is assigned. That way we have "passive" time tracking.
We need some thought as to how this will work. e.g. we could still allow people to assign issues, but only when the person to whom the issue is assigned adds the in-progress label, the timer starts...
If you aren't interested in "Process", please ignore this. 👍
Assigning issues (and pull requests) to someone specific is a good way of communicating with that person that you want them to take on the task, but sadly that often not "enough".
Not "picking" on anyone in particular, but just for illustration purposes @jrans has 18 Open Issues which are _Assigned_ to him: https://github.com/issues?q=assignee%3A_jrans_+is%3Aopen
Its really unclear which issue(s) someone is currently working on when others can assign issues to them... so when that person goes on holiday it can be difficult to know what is "done" if the issue is still open.
But I'm absolutely guilty of having way too many issues assigned to myself ... Maybe I should tidy up my list before bringing up this discussion... 😉
The Ticking Clock
This will only "work" once we have "Time" working. Time will use the GitHub API to check which issues have been assigned to you and start counting as soon as something is assigned. That way we have "passive" time tracking.