A GitHub issue report which makes you happy

Andrey — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 23:29:19 +0000

I have processed many tickets in various issue tracking systems in my life. I prefer to categorize tickets to one or more of the following types:

Feature request: for an open source project it is a great indicator that a project is wanted and new features drive the growth. No new features are added without an effort.
Bug report: well, it has to be addressed. And I follow the philosophy that bug reports should be addressed at higher priority than features. No bugs are fixed without an effort.
Question (or Misunderstanding reported as a bug): these usually highlight gaps in documentation (or unintuitive API / behavior). Users have to be guided and usually questions are answered by directing to an existing documentation, or documentation is improved as a result of a ticket. I do not like to receive the same question multiple times, so I try to improve documentation at higher priority than features. This type of ticket also requires the effort and time of a developer.

All of the above types of tickets require attention of project developers, and time and effort to address.

However, today I received an issue report which did not require me to do anything about. It does not fall in any of the above categories. At the same time, I was happy this was submitted. The ticket is #220 for Hookstate library, which I believe is one of the best state management libraries for React. And the ticket's title is "Just want to share how much I love this library and how much time it has saved me".

Fortunately, GitHub issue tracker does not have a mandatory field "Close reason", like (most of?) all JIRA-based trackers. So, I can just close it.

However, I think closing it without an action would be rude :) So, I have decided to give it time in the form of writing this little post.

How do you categorize tickets of a similar kind? And what action do you take before closing them?

Hookstate: the modern, extremely fast and extendable state management for React that is based on hooks.

Andrey — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 01:01:52 +0000

Please, meet Hookstate - modern alternative to Redux, Mobx, Formik without boilerplate but with impressive performance and predictable behavior. It allowed me to remove Redux and Mobx, and as a result improve the code quality and performance of my projects. It has got very simple API. It is extendable by plugins. And it has got impressive performance: here is the example of the form state management with 5000 fields and the example of the table state with 10000 cells, where one random cell is updated every millisecond.

I am interested in to receive the feedback from the community.

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A GitHub issue report which makes you happy

Hookstate: the modern, extremely fast and extendable state management for React that is based on hooks.