jamescooke, 1 month ago to random

Three weeks ago I tooted complaining about Linear and saying that Shortcut's epics were better than anything Linear had.

https://fosstodon.org/@jamescooke/112252208841040074

Today, I log into Linear and find they've released a Project Overview pane which, basically, creates a space where we can create Shortcut-like epics. An entire space in Linear to contain the "why" of how the tickets in a project have been structured 🙏

https://linear.app/changelog/2024-05-02-the-next-generation-of-linear-projects

This is good 😊

#linearapp

jamescooke, 2 months ago to random

Have discovered today that Linear changes the relationship between issues: blockers become "related" when Done. Meaning, when work is finished, you can't easily tell from a list of related issues which were blocked, blocking or just mentioned.

I wrote a feedback :blobcatsad:

cc @coldclimate

#linearapp

jamescooke, 2 months ago to random

After a year of using Linear for our work project management, I'm pretty certain in my conclusion that it's not as good as Shortcut.

I'm placing particular weight on needing to know "what happened and why", rather than the "what's happening now" aspect.

Linear is good at "now", but piecing together the whys and wherefores of a completed project is VERY HARD.

Shortcut's epics, on the other hand, made this much easier - and I'm badly missing them. 😞

#linearapp

czottmann, 4 months ago to github

Crap. It appears Linear.app’s GitHub commit watchdog is broken. It doesn't auto-link git commits with "magic words" and Linear issue IDs in the Linear issues anymore.

Wrote their support, fingers crossed.

#LinearApp #Linear #GitHub