Hello Zoho Projects Team,
We hope you are doing well.
We would like to submit a feature request regarding the current
GitHub integration in Zoho Projects, specifically the ability to link commit information.
Current Limitation:
As of now, Zoho Projects supports adding GitHub commit details only to Issues/Bugs - This means developers can reference commits when fixing bugs, but they cannot link commits to regular Tasks.
Why this is a problem?
In real software development workflows, developers work on both Tasks and Issues.
A common flow in our team is:
- A developer receives a Task to build a new feature
- Development work is done mainly under that task
- QA later validates the feature
- If problems are found, QA opens Issues/Bugs linked to the task
- The developer fixes those bugs and can attach commits from GitHub to the bug
The problem is that the original feature development commits belong to the Task, not the bug.
As a result:
- The most important development commits are not visible in Zoho Projects
- Only bug-fix commits can be tracked
- There is no full development traceability
- The workflow is much weaker compared to Jira and other developer-focused tools
Requested Enhancement:
We kindly request that Zoho Projects extend the current GitHub integration so commit information can also be linked to Tasks, not only Issues.
This should ideally support:
- Referencing Task IDs in commit messages
- Automatically displaying commit history inside the related task
- Showing branch / PR / commit metadata within the task timeline
- Maintaining the same experience currently available for issues
Benefits:
- Full development traceability from feature task to deployment
- Better visibility for developers, QA, and project managers
- Cleaner linkage between code and feature work
- Easier migration path from Jira
- Much stronger developer workflow support inside Zoho Projects
Please consider this as a "Quick Win": Out of all the enhancements I’ve proposed to improve the Zoho Projects-GitHub synergy, this is arguably the simplest to implement. Since the logic for linking commits to Issues already exists in your platform, extending that same functionality to the Tasks module should be a straightforward adjustment.
This would be a major improvement for teams using Zoho Projects as a development management platform.
Thank you for considering this request and for continuously improving the developer experience in Zoho Projects.
Kind regards,
Ram