Should we talk more about this in our Research staff meeting on Tuesday?

I agree that we need to figure out prioritization process first.  Also
keeping two systems active could lead to requests going into two places
which could affect the workflow of prioritization.

I see the advantages to using Phab, but haste can sometimes, ya know, make
waste.  So let's talk about this more...

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Toby Negrin <[email protected]> wrote:

> To be clear - I do not want to move to Fabricator without reviewing our
> prioritization process.
>
> Shall we make this a Q3 goal since people seem really into it?
>
> On Dec 15, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Oliver,
>
>    I'd like to give Phabricator a try. I suggest the following steps if we
> decide to do it:
>
>    1. We block a 15-min team time in December during which R&D will play
>    with Phabricator in https://phab-01.wmflabs.org/ If we all feel
>    reasonably comfortable, then,
>    2. We switch to Phabricator in January, at the beginning of Q3, and we
>    aim to try it for one quarter [1]. If it works, great, if not,
>    3. We go back to Trello.
>
> Leila
>
> [1] During the quarter, we keep Trello but we don't update it. If we
> figure out some time during the quarter that we can't work with Phabricator
> at all, we switch back to Trello and all we need to do is to add Q3's tasks
> back to it.
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> So those are the reasons I have, off the top of my head. Other reasons?
>>> Counter-arguments? Post em here.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed, Phabricator is a good tool, and great if it creates a single
>> place where we manage our projects.
>>
>> It's not all great though.  Trello has a much more refined notification
>> system and much prettier interface.  Mingle has more powerful queries,
>> Asana is more to the point, etc.  We've been over these and decided as an
>> organization to move towards Phabricator, I'm certainly not trying to dig
>> up old wounds.  I do want to say though: bring those positive experiences
>> when you switch from a system you like.  Because Phabricator is open source
>> and the Facebook team that maintains it has been super friendly and helpful
>> to us during our migration.  If we criticize it constructively, Phabricator
>> will only get better.
>>
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