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  • Do you have issues? GitHub can help.

  • [GitHub Issues]

  • GitHub gives you a great issue tracker built into every repository.

  • Just click on the "issues" tab on the right-hand side of the repo,

  • and you'll see a list of all the issues you have open.

  • Click on the "new issue" button to create a new one.

  • Type in a title for your issue and put as much information

  • in the comment section as you want.

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  • Remember, this is a comment box on GitHub.com, so you can

  • use GitHub Flavored Markdown in here.

  • If you don't know Markdown syntax, you can always click the link to get a

  • syntax cheat sheet. You should check back

  • on this cheat sheet every so often; sometimes we make enhancements

  • to the GitHub flavor. Use the "preview" tab

  • to check your work, then submit the issue.

  • If you have a lot of issues, you'll probably want

  • to organize them using labels. We give you a few labels to start off with,

  • but you should feel free to create whatever new ones help organize

  • your work in ways that make sense to you.

  • You can use labels to filter your view of the issues.

  • That list is always ordered by how recently

  • an issue has been commented on.

  • Anyone can participate in an issue by commenting on it.

  • If you want to draw the attention

  • of another team member to an issue, just @mention them.

  • They'll get a notification either by email or in the web notification center.

  • You can also add and subtract labels if the state of

  • the issue changes over time as work proceeds.

  • Anybody who has write access to the repo can assign an issue

  • to anybody else on the team.

  • When you're filtering your list of the issues,

  • you can limit the view by issues you've created, issues that

  • have been assigned to you, or issues where you've been mentioned.

  • If you have a big project that might involve lots of individual issues,

  • you can create a milestone to track them together.

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  • You can easily assign issues to milestones, then use

  • milestone progress to track the status of the big project.

  • When you're all done with an issue, just close it. It'll be in your

  • repository forever, but it'll stay out of your default lists,

  • and if it's involved in a milestone, milestone progress will

  • move ahead when you close that issue.

  • Issues work really well for traditional applications like bug reports and

  • feature requests, but if you think about it, you can use them

  • to organize any kind of activity or task-oriented discussion.

  • Issues are just one more thing that makes GitHub the place

  • for you to build, discuss, and ship software.

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Do you have issues? GitHub can help.

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