This makes it easy to cross-reference in the future and visualize upcoming work on one of our projects. We use the issues as a place for discussion on those tasks too. These goals or features may come from external stakeholders or from the community. The team files new GitHub issues for development goals, feature requests, or bugs. The UNICEF MagicBox team uses GitHub issues to track on-going development milestones and other tasks to revisit in the future. GitHub issues for the front-end application of MagicBox, magicbox-maps To be successful with GitHub project boards, you need to use issues and pull requests. GitHub issues and pull requests are the cards (or building blocks) of project boards. Filing new GitHub issues for features and milestones is an easy way for someone to follow the project direction. When mapping out new features or milestones for a project, the community needs to see and understand a decision or why a specific direction was chosen. Transparency is a critical part of an open source community.
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Here’s three tips from the UNICEF Office of Innovation on how to organize your open source GitHub projects with the built-in project boards on GitHub.īring development discussion to issues and pull requests With GitHub project boards, we organized our work across multiple repositories to better understand development focus and team bandwidth. The project spans multiple GitHub repositories and works with multiple developers. MagicBox is a full-stack application to serve and visualize data for decision-making in humanitarian crises and emergencies.
Developers and managers can make realistic decisions for estimating deadlines and team bandwidth with organized development focus.Īt the UNICEF Office of Innovation, we use GitHub projects boards to organize development on the MagicBox project. Business process management methodologies such as agile and kanban bring a method to the madness. These problems aren’t technical, but are important to solve to scale a technical project. Eventually, a project may need to meet different requirements and span across multiple repositories. Managing an open source project is challenging work.
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