I did not see this email till now. Yes, the Parsoid board is a weird mix of columns right now .... I was experimenting with what makes sense and I initially thought of making it process-specific, and then thought perhaps it can be a place for easy access to different categories of tasks which would otherwise be lost in the backlog .. and it actually helped us fix a few things by surfacing them in the columns .. but the net result was that it became a mix of different kinds of columns.
I think a dashboard that gives us a bird's-eye view of the various subprojects (even if not the entire list of tickets) would have been useful and I was probably abusing the workboard for it.
But, I am now thinking of removing some of the columns that can be subprojects and use the custom queries that you mention below. But, the custom queries would have to be bookmarks or be stored on some wiki page .. so it does feel like there is a missing UI feature somewhere.
But, good practices and recommendations are welcome, Thanks, Subbu. On 01/26/2015 05:18 PM, Andre Klapper wrote:
Hi, while I have not yet found a way to follow creation of Phabricator project workboards, I recently had the opportunity to look at the Parsoid board at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/487/ and wondered if there are potential recommendations to document. (Sorry for picking Parsoid, it's just that you nice guys sat next to me so I could look over your shoulder. I'd love to watch more teams using workboards, so we can learn from each other and improve together.) Please correct if I am wrong: To me some columns on the Parsoid board look process-oriented ('In Progress', 'Requires Progress'); some look like time-independant generic classification ('robustness'; maybe 'testing'). Phabricator offers global 'Performance' and 'Technical Debt' project tags, so my recommendation would be tagging tasks in those columns accordingly (instead of using a column), combined with saving a custom query to share among the team members (see [1]) to find those issues. Classification that's not generic enough could be Parsoid-* tags instead (see [2] for already existing ones). That solves the problem that a task can have 0-∞ projects associated, while a task can only be in ONE column on a workboard. Does that make sense? If yes, should https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management#Setting_up_a_Workboard_or_Sprint_Board be extended to cover "what kind of stuff should be workboard columns, what should be tags", and could someone put that into words? Thank you, andre [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Custom_queries_in_Maniphest [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/query/all/?after=Parso
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