Background
Before COVID-19, I've been reviewing issues on a bus to work. My team used gitlab, so without a stable internet connection on a bus, I wasn't able to concentrate. I started look for an offline friendly issue management tool and narrowed the contenders to (i) git-issue and (ii) git-bug.
I decided to give a shot at git-issue because I liked its simplicity. My first impression of git-issue was basically an issue manager powered by git. It provided command-line tools for basic issue management like creating, editing, removing, listing issues and comments and also had additional features like logging time estimates/spent and setting milestones.
It was written in shell script.
The Pros and Cons List
After 2 weeks of using it here is my pros and cons list.
Pros:
- lightweight
- based on git
- supports interacting with github/gitlab
Cons:
- github/gitlab integration is buggy
- written in shell script so hard to read & debug the src code
My Honest Opinion
My initial motivation was doing project management when I have don't have access to the internet, e.g., on a bus. I couldn't replace my existing workflow--I used to use GitLab's issue board--because there were tons of project management features GitLab provided that I didn't realize I was dependent on. For example, I wanted
- customizable board view
- markdown preview
- issue number auto-completion the editing view
Also, I realized (i) connecting to the internet on a bus wasn't as hard via tethering and (ii) there are no severe consequences of editing issues concurrently (as in using a cloud tool). For coding (ii) is not true since doing so will likely crash your program.
I ended up mostly using git-issue when I know when exactly what to do, e.g., comment on a specific issue. While I still think it has a lot of potentials, for now, it has not replaced my goto tool, the gitlab issues/board pages on the browser.
Top comments (1)
Thanks for sharing awareness that these exist and your experience using them. I like the idea of git-based-solutions for all things that matter so this look like something I might want to check out.