GitHub Projects vs Asana

[u/funcyChaos]

I've been on a team for a cool and large community project for going on 5 years now. Have begged them to communicate with GitHub issues and ideally I would like to use a GitHub project so we can organize our thoughts and all. The project consists of events, event organizing and planning, a website, and an upcoming app. I have used issues for things outside of just the code before and it's worked well for me.

This year they said they "really wanted to start using a project managing platform". I of course said that's what I've been trying to do the whole time. I showed them a sample GitHub project and my lead said they didn't know it could do that.

They ultimately decided to go after Asana, claiming that GitHub is a tech tool that has been expanded into project management, implying that it isn't good enough I guess?

I've tried using Asana to see if I can at least understand the fuss, and to see if I can just get GitHub issues from there.

It seems largely the same to me, from a few minutes of use, and the GitHub integration only does pull requests which feels pretty useless.

Partially here just to vent to someone that maybe understands, but insight would be appreciated too. This is genuinely annoying me so much.