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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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