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Transition from GitHub Issues

Last modified: 06 February 2025

GitHub Issues is a built-in tool that helps users track bugs, tasks, and feature requests for their projects directly within their repositories. One of the key advantages for developers who work with GitHub issues is its proximity to the codebase. This makes it easy to associate updates in the source code with the issue that describes the rationale for the change.

This guide shows you how software developers can configure a project in YouTrack and manage their issues directly from an IDE. This approach differs slightly from the experience you get when working with issues in GitHub but gives you a similar sense of connection between your issues and the fixes applied in your codebase.

Another benefit of this approach is that once you've set it up, you can manage almost all of your work without leaving your IDE. This reduces context-switching, which saves you time and effort.