Hmm. Here's this thing that mostly only affects Dan which can be changed to make Dan's life better, and any changes will be almost unnoticed by everyone else. Dan's roped Kevin in to helping him do all the work, and the rest of us don't have to do anything. I dunno. Sounds sketchy.
Of course you should do it! Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! > > I’m writing to solicit feedback on a plan to slightly rework the Discovery > workboards on Phabricator. > > Back when we were assembling the team and putting the process together, I > expressed a strong desire to have a centralised Discovery workboard which > would contain every task related to Discovery’s work. In the end, I’d say > that hasn’t really worked out, because there’s simply too many tasks in the > workboard and too much in flight. It’s been hard to sensibly break things > down into different categories of task on a per-project basis. To help > alleviate this problem, here’s my proposal: > > - The Discovery workboard is disabled. > - The Discovery tag will continue to exist as a parent-tag for > Discovery’s work, but there will be no associated workboard. > - Individual backlog workboards can be created for individual projects > at the request of that team, for example: > - Discovery-Search-Backlog > - Discovery-Analysis-Backlog > - Sprint boards will remain exactly as they are presently. > > How will this affect you? Firstly, this won’t affect you at all unless you > spend a significant amount of time in the Discovery backlog, which should > mostly be! Otherwise, nothing will really change for you. The workflow of > engineers working on Maps and Wikidata Query Service, for example, will > likely be completely unaffected by this change. > > As I’m the primary consumer of the Discovery board, and it’s not working > very well for me at the minute, I’d like to move forwards with this > proposal unless there are any strong objections. Kevin and I will handle > all the logistics. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Lead Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > >
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