Prioritized Issues

My team at GitHub prioritizes our issues into three buckets, Current, Backlog, and Icebox.

I move an issue from Backlog to Current and assign it to myself when I start working on it. Any new issues that come in during the week go into the Icebox. Once a week we have a meeting where we decide as a team what issues should become a priority and get moved from the Icebox to the Backlog. When we complete an issue we check close it.

We have been using a single tracking issue with three task lists to represent the three buckets. This requires manually editing the text of the issue each time you want to pick something off of the backlog. It requires a massive edit during our weekly planning meeting. It also requires editing every time a new issue comes to our attention that we may be responsible for.

This app aims to solve alleviate some of the pain of our current process.

Usage

Clone the repo and run bundler.

git clone https://github.com/jonmagic/i-got-issues.git
cd i-got-issues
bundle

Now got to https://github.com/settings/applications and register a new application, you'll need the Client ID and Client Secret.

Create a .env file in the root of the project and enter the following details filling in with the values you just copied after registering a new application:

GITHUB_KEY=client_id_from_the_app_you_just_registered
GITHUB_SECRET=client_secret_from_the_app_you_just_registered

Now bootstrap the database and start the server.

rake db:setup
rails server

Open your browser to http://localhost:3000 and choose a team :) Enjoy!

Development

Run the tests with rake.

Deploying

I setup the app on Heroku in a matter of minutes. You shouldn't have any problems.

1. Create the Heroku app and add the remote to your local git repository
2. Register app on GitHub https://github.com/settings/applications
3. Set the two environment variables GITHUB_KEY and GITHUB_SECRET using heroku config:add
4. Deploy the app to Heroku with git push heroku
5. Run database migrations with heroku run rake db:migrate

Fire it up in your browser and see if it worked.

Contributing

Read the guide to contributing.

Contributors

• @jonmagic
• @juliamae

License

See LICENSE.