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github vs. trello

Github

Pros

  • Pull requests are the thing for getting dev done, seeing what others have done, and discussing it. I love pull requests.

Cons

  • Developer-centric workflow that doesn't provide much value to the rest of the business, because it has no interest in that at all.
  • Not particularly flexible organization of anything, milestones are a bit clunky to use, so it's mostly just labels.

Neutral

  • Individual issues are a pretty good place for discussion, but not a killer feature at all like PRs.

Trello

Pros

  • Great for all sorts of business processes, including, but far from limited to, product related things.
  • Very flexible organization with three dimensions: board, list, label.
  • Ordering of things within lists is killer feature.

Cons

  • No pull requests and weak integration ("just post a link!").
  • Code snippets don't look as good (no syntax highlighting).

Neutral (or perhaps still cons, not sure yet)

  • Are cards as good for discussion as issues are? Maybe, but I'm not sure. Comments flow the opposite direction, everything is narrower because it's a modal instead of a page, and you can only attach images to cards themselves, rather than inline them in comments
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wswld commented Mar 14, 2018

As of today would you recommend using Trello for managing code projects (I'm concerned that GitHub issues are gone if I move my repo elsewhere), or it's 100% GitHub issues now? I'm managing a bunch of minor FOSS projects.

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nftgeek commented Oct 4, 2021

Still relevant?

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nzbart commented Jun 22, 2022

GitHub now has projects and milestones that allow for categorising and ordering issues.

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