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What are Github issues?

What are Github issues?

From the course: GitHub Essential Training: 1 The Basics

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What are Github issues?

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- GitHub Issues is a fundamental feature of GitHub used for tracking tasks, bugs, and feature requests for a project. Team members can discuss problems, identify tasks, and track progress over time. I use Issues as a form of improvement and communication for my students and my team members. If I see a team member's code has a bug and I want to flag it, I use GitHub Issues. For something like, "You're missing some important accessibility features on this button," I open an Issue and assign it to them. Then they can turn that into a work ticket. GitHub Issues are a way to communicate bugs on the fly and track the problems you're seeing. Let's look at the workflow step-by-step. Now for GitHub Issues, it's very important to know there are two separate places that you can approach Issues. There's the global Issues, which is on your main page where you see "Pull requests," "Issues," "Codespaces," "Marketplace," and…

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