On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out what benefits the Epic tag actually provides, and > so far I haven't thought of any. > > Several teams are putting [EPIC] or EPIC: or [<four-letter-bird] in the > title of epics, all of which do a better job of identifying epics than the > Epic tag. The tag is only visible when you view the detail, whereas a > freeform text identifier in the title is visible in workboards, lists, and > even email notifications. > > I can't think of a case where it would be helpful to see all the epics in > phab. I can't even think of a case where it would be helpful to filter all > the epics within a project. And if you did, you could just filter on the > word "epic" in the title, if teams chose that approach. > > So my bold question: Should we just eliminate (or at least deprecate) the > Epic tag?
I used it all the time for MediaWiki-Core and even had a saved workboard search to show only the epic tagged stories. What's so horrible about it? Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
