Re: [teampractices] Keeping track of activity in tasks in phabricator

2016-05-18 Thread Lydia Pintscher 
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:18 PM Kevin Smith  wrote:

> It's not a helpful answer, but I use email, and just hit delete a lot.
>
> It would be interesting to hear from product managers, since they touch
> boatloads of tasks. I think a few are on this mailing list.
>

I read all of the emails -.- Would love to hear more efficient ways. All of
Wikidata's phabricator tickets go to a mailinglist (wikidata-bugs). The
ones I touched also in addition go to me directly but since I touch so many
there isn't really a meaningful distinction between those I particularly
care about personally and those that I just triaged for example.

Cheers
Lydia
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Re: [teampractices] Keeping track of activity in tasks in phabricator

2016-05-18 Thread Quim Gil 
I moved to web notifications instead of email, since they are faster and
easier to scan. I watch only the projects that are strictly related to my
work. For the rest, I subscribe and (very important!) also unsubscribe from
tasks based on current interests.

My email preferences:

Maniphest Tasks
⚫ Email◐ Notify⚪ Ignore A task's status changes.
⚫ Email◐ Notify⚪ Ignore A task's owner changes.
⚫ Email◐ Notify⚪ Ignore A task's priority changes.
⚫ Email◐ Notify⚪ Ignore A task's subscribers change.
⚫ Email◐ Notify⚪ Ignore A task's associated projects change.
⚫ Email◐ Notify⚪ Ignore One of the tasks a task is blocked by changes
status.
⚫ Email◐ Notify⚪ Ignore A task is moved between columns on a workboard.
⚫ Email◐ Notify⚪ Ignore Someone comments on a task.
⚫ Email◐ Notify⚪ Ignore Other task activity not listed above occurs.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Grace Gellerman 
wrote:

> +1 to the idea of marking tasks you are interested in with tag for your
> personal dashboard.
>

Except that personal workboards don't scale... Have you tried to mark these
tasks with flags instead?

Anyone using https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/flag/ as the backlog of
tasks not in your backlog that you still want to follow?

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Re: [teampractices] Keeping track of activity in tasks in phabricator

2016-05-18 Thread Grace Gellerman 
+1 to the idea of marking tasks you are interested in with tag for your
personal dashboard.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I've recently started to use a Herald rule, to send me a single email (but
> not subscribe) when a new task is created (in a project I'm interested in).
> This way I can keep track of when people file new tasks.
> I can then selectively triage or subscribe to the tasks, as desired.
>
> See setup in this screenshot
> http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/9136/LaJQAR.png
> Especially that last line "Is newly created = true".
> Configure your own rules at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/herald/
>
> (More documentation is at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help/Herald_Rules including
> the warning "Please do not create herald rules simply to watch a project.
> Herald rules take time to execute which means they make phabricator run
> slower for everyone.")
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Max Binder  wrote:
>
>> I've tweaked my personal dashboard a bit to help with this, though I
>> think that is really just another visual alternative to email and
>> Phab-notifications. I echo Kevin, I'm curious how POs handle this (and
>> wonder if the POs should be the drivers in grooming meetings, since they
>> are touching most tasks anyway).
>>
>>
> I keep meaning to overhaul my (default) dashboard.
> If you have any great examples or tips on the modules, please add them to
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Phabricator_tips/Dashboards
> (the main link that is pointed to from
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Using_Dashboards )
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Re: [teampractices] Keeping track of activity in tasks in phabricator

2016-05-18 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 
I've recently started to use a Herald rule, to send me a single email (but
not subscribe) when a new task is created (in a project I'm interested in).
This way I can keep track of when people file new tasks.
I can then selectively triage or subscribe to the tasks, as desired.

See setup in this screenshot
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/9136/LaJQAR.png
Especially that last line "Is newly created = true".
Configure your own rules at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/herald/

(More documentation is at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help/Herald_Rules including the
warning "Please do not create herald rules simply to watch a project.
Herald rules take time to execute which means they make phabricator run
slower for everyone.")


On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Max Binder  wrote:

> I've tweaked my personal dashboard a bit to help with this, though I think
> that is really just another visual alternative to email and
> Phab-notifications. I echo Kevin, I'm curious how POs handle this (and
> wonder if the POs should be the drivers in grooming meetings, since they
> are touching most tasks anyway).
>
>
I keep meaning to overhaul my (default) dashboard.
If you have any great examples or tips on the modules, please add them to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Phabricator_tips/Dashboards
(the main link that is pointed to from
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Using_Dashboards )
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Re: [teampractices] Keeping track of activity in tasks in phabricator

2016-05-18 Thread Kevin Smith 
It's not a helpful answer, but I use email, and just hit delete a lot.

It would be interesting to hear from product managers, since they touch
boatloads of tasks. I think a few are on this mailing list.



Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation


On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I wanted to ask about techniques for keeping track of phabricator tasks
> you're interested in and mentions in comments in a sane way.
>
> I used email before, but it got very noisy, so I've been using
> notifications extensively for some time, and that's mostly worked fine (I
> tweaked a bit what I get notified about).
>
> I go to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/notification/query/unread/ and
> check new activity, clear notifications I'm not interested by opening tabs
> and closing them without reading (yes, this sucks), leave the tabs of tasks
> I'm interested in open, and occasionally unsubscribe from tasks that I
> really don't want to know about.
>
> I've been having problems the more I take an active role in grooming
> backlogs and organizing tasks, since every time you do anything with a task
> (even moving it from column to column) you get subscribed to it, so the
> more you help, the more notifications you get, and that ends up creating a
> ton of noise for really keeping up with the development side of the tasks
> (in contrast with the organizing side of it).
>
> What other techniques do you use? How do you keep up? I'm interested to
> learn about other workflows.
>
> Thanks,
> Joaquin
>
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