Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted

Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by nefitty on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:42AM (#29564627)

I was confused by the title. Apparently epics are a way to organize issues by themes across projects. GitHub doesn't have this concept, in case anyone else was wondering.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/

https://github.community/t/epics-github-issues/1430

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by bovermyer on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:45AM (#29565214)

I didn't realize this wasn't common knowledge. It's been part of my everyday life for over ten years and several jobs.

You can also add them to GitHub via ZenHub and other such tools.

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by nefitty on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @09:41AM (#29566534)

To add to the confusion of the agile term, the lay term and the company name, I know epics as some part of the React state-management library, Redux Observable...

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by Karellen on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:57AM (#29564752)

Huh. While trying to figure out the reasoning behind the name used, TIL that "epic" has acquired a new meaning of "(computing) In software development, a large or extended user story."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epic

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by tsimionescu on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:20AM (#29565508)

The name is an extension of '[user] story' - in literature, an epic is a collection of related stories (as in, The Epic of Gilgamesh), so they decided to call a collection of User Stories an Epic.

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by Karellen on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:53PM (#29571493)

Yes, that's what the definition I quoted said.

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by tsimionescu on Thursday December 16, 2021 @03:45AM (#29576321)

I was trying to add to your definition, to explain where the name comes from, for anyone who hasn't seen this before.

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by orangejewce on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:46AM (#29564656)

That's because github isn't trying to be a replacement for JIRA and source control for most teams.

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by tyingq on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:53AM (#29565292)

https://github.com/features/issues

Scroll down to "break issues into actionable tasks", and they have an example that's even labeled as an "Epic". They are definitely headed in the same direction as Gitlab.

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by nefitty on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:30AM (#29565603)

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I missed it on my quick check.

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by pilif on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:57AM (#29564748)

their latest updates to their project management features[1] launched as part of the "new" issues are totally going in that direction though.

I'm unsure as to whether that's a good thing or not.

1) https://github.blog/2021-06-23-introducing-new-github-issues...

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Re:Gitlab Epic Issue Relationships Deleted by taneq on Thursday December 16, 2021 @02:12AM (#29575854)

Yeah, it's one of those Agile things.

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