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Comment by purephase | Hacker News Reader

A few items I'd like to see:

- Attachments in the issue tracker. Pictures tell a thousand words and it would be infinitely easier for user submitted issues to have screenshots.

- Better code search.

- More granularity in the notifications. For instance, I'd love the ability to toggle email for my own repos but leave it to web notifications for my watches. I've missed pull requests because of the deluge of messages.

- Better reliability.

It's a great tool. I really enjoy using it, but with a few additions it would be near perfect.

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We just shipped Issue Attachments: https://github.com/blog/1347-issue-attachments

> More granularity in the notifications.

This. If you're part of a big organization with a lot of repos, you'll automatically watch all of them (and forks) as they are created. I'm currently watching 451 repos and have a mess of Gmail filters to (mostly) ignore notifications from repos I don't care about. Priority Inbox helps some in that it makes email actually mostly usable, but Github really needs to fix this.

There's an option to turn off auto-watching and a button to stop watching all repos, but there's not really an easy to to say, "I care about this repo and all it's forks, but nothing else." Or, as you mentioned, a way to watch some repos via email and everything else on the web.

You can add attchements to issues - please look at my https://github.com/lifeisstillgood/githubkoolaid

(it has one helper script - ghgrab.sh that, well, fires off xwd, and then uploads the resulting screenshot through the github API (mediuated by the excellent ghi)

I have no idea if it works outside of FreeBSD - drop me an issue on github if it does :-) WIth a screenshot!

Shameless plug, searchco.de allows you to search over github,

http://searchco.de/?q=irq_create_mapping+url%3Agithub

You just need to add the url:github portion to any search. You can do the same over bitbucket, codeplex, google code, sourceforge and the fedora source tree too. See, http://searchco.de/blog/view/variety-of-updates

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