Wow! That's a great suggestion! Seems like an under-documented and
under-appreciated feature, but other than being private rather than public,
it is close to what you'd want from tags.

Thanks, Mukunda!

Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Mukunda Modell <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Another option for personal categorization:  'flags' - it's the
> phabricator equivalent of bookmarks. Flags are personal, not shared
> publicly.
>
> A bit more info about flags is at
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102812
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 8:14 AM, David Causse <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all the suggestions,
>>
>> If I sum up (in no particular order):
>>
>> - tracking tasks:
>>   pros: everyone can do it
>>   cons: requires a lot of manual steps to classify, possible confusions
>> with existing hierarchy, hard to search
>> - tags
>>   pros: seems to be perfect
>>   cons: requires special perms, could lead to tons of meaningless tags if
>> it was open
>> - keywords in description
>>   pros: flexible because non structured
>>   cons: no special tools in phab to manage them, easy to get lost
>> - single tag with workboard and columns
>>   pros: good compromise
>>   cons: affected columns are not displayed everywhere, cannot assign to
>> multiple columns, requires 2 steps to classify, cannot search a specific
>> column
>>
>> Tags remain the ideal solution imo.
>>
>> I see that phabricator added a notion of subproject recently could it
>> help in this case?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 08/07/2016 08:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
>>
>>> Chase Pettet, 07/07/2016 23:07:
>>>
>>>> I think the ideal is that a task has finite work and is eventually
>>>> closed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, this is the reason some dislike the tracking tasks; not a problem
>>> if you create reports for, say, 12 different classes of actionable search
>>> problems and add a handful blockers for each.
>>>
>>> (A contributing factor was that Phabricator's support for dependencies
>>> between tasks is awful: hard to add, no flexibility in notifications, no
>>> charts, no searchability. Tracking tasks were very powerful in bugzilla,
>>> not so much in Phabricator.)
>>>
>>> Nemo
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