Use GitHub Issues / Tickets / Roadmap Feature?

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It is best to keep the dependency on GitHub low and optional.

Using GitHub for issue tracking should be avoided. GitHub’s abuse prevention systems are overzealous, and when accounts or organizations are affected, support responses can take weeks or months. [1]

I have personal experience with this involving one of my GitHub organizations.

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Source Reported problem
GitHub Community #50050 “organisation are flagged” + “More than 2 months” mentioned in thread.
GitHub Community #53608 “Organization Account Flagged 2 Weeks+”; user says no support response and no reason given.
GitHub Community #120045 “Several of your organizations have been flagged”; projects hidden, ticket raised, no resolution yet.
GitHub Community #126585 “Restrictions due to organization being flagged”; paying org, company “dead in the water,” still no response.
Reddit r/github Org owner says their GitHub organization was flagged, support ticket opened, no response; later comment says still not unbanned, then later “Unbanned.”
Hacker News “GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation”; all orgs hidden, no explanation, no response after over a week.
Reddit r/github “Several of your organizations have been flagged”; user reports repos with ~2k stars hidden and Docker image pulls broken.
Hacker News, 2026 “GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago”; public visibility 404, OAuth broke, Actions stopped, no appeal response after two weeks.

Longer “months no reply” reports, mostly account-level

Source Reported delay
GitHub Community #179055 “Account Flagged for 3+ Months - No Response, No Ticket Number, Completely Blocked.”
GitHub Community #152217 Ticket open for over 2 months; support “completely non responsive”; no reason given.
GitHub Community #116661 Reinstatement request nearly 2 months; account flagged as spammy; user mentions an organization account.
GitHub Community #116566 User says reinstatement request had 2 months with no response.
GitHub Community #27294 Account flagged as spam after unauthorized access; restoration request submitted 2 months earlier, no response.
Hacker News “GitHub banned me permanently”; user says months passed with no support response.
Reddit r/github “I used a GitHub feature. Now I’m shadow-banned”; user reports about 1.5 months still no fix.
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I take your point, though I must confess I wasn’t aware the code was hosted elsewhere like on a mirror, no less. That rather explains why I suggested GitHub Projects in the first place. The only other platform I’m acquainted with that offers anything remotely similar is GitLab, however, that would entail further expense and rather a lot of fluff. Which rather piles on top of the infrastructure already maintained across both the Kicksecure and Whonix projects, I’m afraid. One does try to avoid making more work for oneself.

Personally, I rather think it could be laid out in a more organized fashion n tidied up a bit without getting all bloody OCD about it, mind you. No need to go overboard.

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Self-hosting gitlab - according to online commentary - seems quite involved. Related:

GitLab.com:

Had at the time more aggressive Tor blocking then GitHub.

When choosing another cloud based git host, quote https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-source-code-in-self-hosted-git-keywords-github-gitlab/15934/10:

Any alternative forge hosting - if not self-hosted - would require a written ideological commitment to user privacy to:

Issues:

Any alternative forge hosting - if not self-hosted - would require avoiding overzealous account suspensions combined with slow support:

Update: Support fixed the issue after approximately 3 weeks.