Issues & Projects

GitHub Issues and Projects provide a flexible, integrated workspace that works alongside your code to help you plan and track work.

GitHub Projects

GitHub Issues are a lightweight, built-in system for tracking bugs, tasks, and feature requests within your repositories.

Tracking: Manage work items, link to pull requests, and use milestones for tracking progress.
Organization: Use labels, task lists, and sub-issues to break down complex work.
Communication: Collaborate using GitHub Flavored Markdown, emojis, and mentions.
Templates: Create issue templates to standardize how contributors report information, such as bug reports or feature requests.

GitHub Projects provide a flexible, integrated workspace that works alongside your issues and pull requests to help you plan and track work.

Views: Visualize your work as a Table, Kanban Board, or Roadmap.
Integration: Stays automatically in sync with GitHub data (issues and pull requests).
Customization: Create custom fields to track specific data points relevant to your team, like priority, size, or iteration.
Scope: Projects can be created at the user or organization level to track work across multiple repositories, providing a high-level overview of ongoing efforts.

GitHub Docs: The GitHub Docs site is the primary resource for all features.
API Documentation: If you are looking to automate your workflows, explore the GitHub REST API documentation for Projects and Issues.