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GitHub - Milestones

GitHub’s Issue tracker allows you to mark Issues as belonging to particular Milestones - important moments in time of a project.

• Click the Milestones button in the project’s Issues tab to manage milestones.
• Click New milestone to create a new one

Sprint management

Milestones are especially useful in Agile development, where work is earmarked for particular Sprints.

• individual Issues can be added to particular Milestones

The Milestones view shows progress towards each Milestone, including:

• percent completion
• number of open issues
• number of closed issues

In this course, we’ll create Milestones for each of our project’s Sprints:

• Sprint 0
• Sprint 1
• Sprint 2
• Sprint 3
• Sprint 4

What to include in the Milestone settings:

• a description of the big picture of what the Sprint is aiming to achieve
• the due date for the Sprint, as indicated by the due date of the Stakeholder Demos on the course schedule

Add Issues from the Product Backlog to a Sprint Backlog as follows:

• add the “Sprint N” Milestone to the Issues, where N is the current Sprint number

Closing milestones

Milestones must be closed on their due dates

• any open Issues within a closed Milestone must be added back to the Product Backlog… this requires no action on your part.
• leave the “Sprint N” Milestone on those open Issues, where N is the just-completed Sprint number… do not remove this!

Creating releases

It is customary to issue a new product Release at the end of each Milestone. This can be accomplished from within GitHub by clicking the Create a new release link from the main repository page.