add the ability update status of work items to keep team members informed

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Azure Boards Extension for Visual Studio Code

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add the ability update status of work items to keep team members informed #71

Open edwindotcom opened 5 years ago

edwindotcom commented 5 years ago

I'd like this extension to do more for me. I personally don't have many things assigned to me. I'd like to:

see all the tasks in the sprint
see it's status todo/in progress/done
do the most common action, which is to change it's status from todo -> in progress (done is completed via merging a PR)

The most common task I have is keeping tickets up to date. Either moving from 'To Do' to 'In Progress'.

cschleiden commented 5 years ago

It's interesting, not sure if we can/want to support it though. It can get complicated quickly. What does it mean move something in progress - what state, state category, board column should this map to. What if you're not using Sprints, would we need to integrate Kanban boards?

edwindotcom commented 5 years ago

after installing the GH vs code extension - i see we're following that pattern. It's worth understanding what else a dev might want to do with a work item. Ideally - if i have 5 tasks and I'm working through them one at a time, I want to communicate to the rest of my team the status of those 5 tasks.

This way, a dev doesn't have to jump into the web UI to update status of a WI