Add ability to assign due dates to issues.

[markdorison]

No description provided.

[cirosantilli]

Possible workaround: milestones. True, not perfect as too much overhead for creating one milestone per issue.

Note however that GitHub is highly resistant to new issue metadata ;-)

[markdorison]

Milestones with due dates work great in many cases but there are others
where they don't work at all, especially when the due dates all vary. One
milestone per issue doesn't really scale.

On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Ciro Santilli 六四事件 法轮功 纳米比亚 威视 <
[email protected]> wrote:

Possible workaround: milestones. True, not perfect as too much overhead
for creating one milestone per issue.

Note however that GitHub is highly resistant to new issue metadata ;-)

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#432 (comment).

[kevinisaac]

Any luck with this feature? We would love to have this feature for our team to assign some kind of priority/deadlines for issues!

[xolotl]

I notice GitLab has due dates for issues: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/due_dates.html

Milestones is not a great solution for granular date-based tracking. It would be great if issues had due dates.

[shaform]

Since we have projects/cards, it would be great if we could assign due date to cards as well. Perhaps there should also be some notification mechanism when the task is due.

[charlie-quinn]

I have been waiting for this feature for years – now is the time GitHub! Now is the time. 🏆

[tufankilicaslan]

That would be a great option if we can assign due date for issues

Milestone not helps at all.

[threewordphrase]

This is a huge hole in GitHub issues usefulness for Real Software™. There are many cases (SSL cert expiration, third-party service subscriptions, etc) that need regular attention on a calendar basis and there is currently no way to reflect that. We are currently considering switching our issue tracking for this sole reason.

[OldhamMade]

Agreed. Due dates for issues with email notifications when the due date is getting close help massively in projects – think SSL certificate renewals, etc.

[smith11235]

Please.

The only other thing that we ever note as a team now is that whoever made projects and whoever made milestones don't seem to get along.

[chrisblakley]

I also just noticed this feature in GitLab and would love to have it in Github.

[hcharley]

My team has repeatedly reported that the lack of deadlines is the their number one pain point with GH issues.

[mberglund99]

Our team's largest problem with Github - no due dates on issues. Would be amazing.

[TonyRutherford1]

Is this coming? This is such a basic but key feature :-)

[DoingTheNeedful]

Four years and zero acknowledgement by Github staff.. I somehow doubt that it's coming. I do so hope, however..

[alexleventer]

I built this GitHub action to manage due dates on issues: https://github.com/alexleventer/github-issue-due-dates-action

It will tag the issues with an overdue/1 week to due labels.

[threewordphrase]

@alexleventer FTW!

But if you're listening, GitHub, don't burden this guy with the torch forever!

[brucebrit]

Please include this, GitHub. it will be the best gift for year 2020

[joshimhoff]

+1

[MitchelKerckhaert]

Could someone from the github team please respond to this issue? this is indeed a very common feature that has repeatedly been requested for almost five years now. If there is a reason for not wanting to / being able to implement this, please share in this issue.

[thanhcsf]

I hope to have an answer on this issue as soon as possible.

[OldhamMade]

Any news on this feature @duythanhvn? I know it might seem somewhat bad form to chase up with everything that is going on at the moment, but this feature is something that would really benefit teams using GH Issues for project management, especially now that teams are having to work remotely.

[thanhcsf]

Sadly, I don't know @OldhamMade. I don't even know if there are employees or managers at Github and Microsoft who read these feedback or are planning to develop this feature. I'm still waiting like the other programmers here. If there's an official statement from Github then I think that's great.

[nickmayn]

does anyone know if this issue has been added? Would really like it to be included

[MaartenForus]

How can we get more attention for this issue?

[chrisblakley]

How can we get more attention for this issue?

Github Satellite is coming up next week. Maybe we could ask at appropriate Q&A sessions?

[havesomeleeway]

@chrisblakley did you manage to pose the question during Github Satellite?

[johann-petrak]

This would be a very fundamental and important feature to have, gitlab does have it and the issue has been open and unadressed for 5 years now. It is disappointing to see no progress on this.

If this ever gets added it should be in parallel with due dates on project cards, especially since cards can be converted to issues (which could then have the same due date).

[danieleldjarn]

This feature is something my team is sorely missing from GitHub issues!

[MarcStdt]

We've just migrated all of our projects from Gitlab to GitHub and I was surprised about the fact, that GitHub does not have this feature.
It seems quite fundamental for project management.

[JFQueralt]

+1
We are also bummed by this.

[GAFelton]

Please implement due dates on issues! I think its an essential feature for any project.

[chrisblakley]

For what it's worth, I woke up to this notification this morning (from the Github Universe 2020 virtual conference):

The tweet itself »

[ChrisSLR]

GitLab and GitHub look pretty much the same until it comes to due dates. I frequently use them on GitLab to remind me of important tasks that need to be worked on later. As GitHub milestones already support due dates I don't understand why enabling it for issues is such a big deal ...

If improved usability doesn't convince you, then make it available only for paid accounts. I'm sure that many people would love to upgrade just to have this features.

[alexander-kastil]

Please take a look at this request again and implement due dates ... after all not a big thing to do

[IAmSarthakVerma]

This is the only feature that feels like is MISSING from the issues tab. Deadlines are a must!

[johann-petrak]

No response by github since 2015, does not look like they would care much at all about feature requests by their users.

[renestefancic2]

Is there an ETA on this?

[alexander-kastil]

This is the only feature that feels like is MISSING from the issues tab. Deadlines are a must!

... except „create branch for issue“ … 🙈

[cspavlou]

+1, this is a feature that we would love to see in GitHub

[TonyRutherford1]

By the looks of it.....Never going to happen 😭

[yueim]

Now is 2021-03-23, is this coming? This is such a basic but key feature :-)

[andreas-bergstrom]

Pretty obvious that MS wants Github to stay light since they also sell Azure Devops. We are probably migrating to Gitlab instead.

[ShixiangWang]

Use https://github.com/marketplace/actions/due-dates

[FedeCuci]

. +1

[Gustavo-Henrique-EM]

.+1

[khuderm]

This issue was created 6 years ago and no response from github. Perhaps it is time to move on to gitlab😡

[Levi-Lesches]

@khuderm, GitHub doesn't monitor this repository. Use the official GitHub feedback discussions if you want a response.

[Ahacad]

Some of the discussions here: community/community#4282