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How is this particularly different from a paid GitHub account? Now that they have issue tracking, it's pretty much a one-stop shop.

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The issue tracking on github is very basic and just about useless in my experience for managing any private development environment. Hopefully they continue to improve it like the rest of their services so I won't have to use other systems in the future but it's really not there yet.

How would you like us to improve it so it isn't useless to you?

Just a few things I can think of off the top of my head

- Alternative priority system. Putting them in order is cool and I like it but I need a way to say "This isn't important" vs "This needs to be done yesterday" without using labels and to have them be sortable

- Dependent issues. Ticket 4 can't be completed until 5 and 7 have been done.

- Custom status folders on the left hand side. Open and closed aren't really enough for a lot of work flows. New, In progress, ready for review, ready for deploy, closed are ones I like but everyone is different here so maybe make them customizable? You could use labels for this I guess but it just doesn't feel as right as I folders on the side would.

Those are the main ones for now.

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