February Update
Hey there — Nat Bennett here with a quick update on StoryTime development.
We added a few folks to the alpha this month, including one team that is using it for actual work — scary! But exciting!
This Month
Team-based access control for backlogs. It’s now possible to make backlogs that only people on your team can see.
Story permalinks. I often need to text Jesse or Coby with a question about a story, and now that’s much easier — I can grab a link to the story straight out of the UI.
Line numbers! Very much scratching our own itch here — in our planning meeting we noticed that we were missing the conversational handhold that line numbers provide in a pairing session — so we added them to the backlog view.
Story metadata. Stories now report who created the, and at what time.
Up Next
State History. Who finished the story that I’m accepting? Who marked it “ready?”
This isn’t a big issue for us since our team is so small but on a multi-engineer team if feels weird to reject a story without knowing who worked on it.
Markdown. In the public alpha people immediately make a story that checks whether we handle markdown. We see you, we hear you, and we support you.
Edit History. The history of the story description. A little trickier than the state change history, because right now we update the story description a lot — we have a profound desire not to lose even a single one of your precious keystrokes.
More soon,
Nat