GitHub Public Roadmap

Re:GitHub Public Roadmap by oefrha on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:26PM (#23978311)

This is welcome, but anyone else feeling that GitHub is moving in the more-stuff-lower-quality direction? In particular I've wasted quite a bit of time over the past year on scarcely documented features and misfeatures around GitHub Actions. (To be clear I like GitHub Actions a lot.)

One example: just yesterday I found out that public images on GitHub Packages Docker registry can't be used in GitHub Actions' jobs.<job_id>.container, since the former is gated by auth for whatever goddamn reason and the latter can only pull from public registries. Think about it, their (probably #1) container-related feature can't use their own registry. Apparently people have been complaining for almost a year now, yet nothing has changed.

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Re:GitHub Public Roadmap by rattray on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:46PM (#23979871)

I do wish they were holding a slightly higher quality bar on each release, yeah.

My tiny example was the release of statuses. It included a pop-up to tell me it was there -- everyone knows developers find those obnoxious, just let me discover the feature myself. Plus, the feature just isn't relevant to me as someone who isn't actively participating in open source or looking for a job right now. The little animations were also slightly janky, and the button didn't feel like it was in a neat and orderly place - just sort of tacked on so that it'd be seen.

My hunch is that this comes from organizationally overemphasizing shipping something splashy instead of something amazing. Is the company celebrating "discerning people find this to be uncompromisingly good" (even for small or old features) as much as "this thing was noticed by a lot of people and then this other thing was noticed by a lot of people too"?

Overall I feel that under Nat, GitHub has walked this line quite well - just feels like it slips a little sometimes as a natural pendulum swing

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Re:GitHub Public Roadmap by olingern on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:21PM (#23979012)

It’s a lot better than the “Dear Github” era where nothing is released.

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Re:GitHub Public Roadmap by ianwalter on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:54PM (#23978662)

I think more-stuff-lower-quality is kind of inevitable, but I am happy with that general direction. I have run into a lot of annoying things like and including your example. This roadmap would be better if it had a simple way to submit and vote for feature requests like other public roadmaps.

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Re:GitHub Public Roadmap by shankun on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:31PM (#23980916)

(From GitHub product team)

Thanks, @ianwalter. We plan on having a public feedback repo soon - but in the meantime, if you want to submit ideas, please check out https://support.github.com/contact/feedback.

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Re:GitHub Public Roadmap by dzhiurgis on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @05:29AM (#23984907)

My biggest beef with actions there's huge conflation between action and workflow. I've spend many hours swearing at their documentation...

Also I'm not sure it's a great a idea to use their actions actions as it creates dependencies on someone elses repos and Github itself. I feel I should just write my tests in a container, but I think I've hit a wall there pretty quick too.

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Re:GitHub Public Roadmap by jrochkind1 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:59PM (#23980020)

You like Github actions a lot, but also think they are lower-quality?

I guess the good news is that the majority of the items on the roadmap are github actions related?

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