Hey Dan, This has been an ongoing and as yet unresolved point of discussion with some teams. There are concerns about goals-as-epics, from a long-term process perspective, as well as overwhelming Phab with proprietary tags (a problem that Bugzilla apparently suffered). Andre, Joel A, Kevin S, Kristen, and I all chatted at some point about this on #wikimedia-teampractices. While I can't say we found ultimate resolution, we did decide that the simplest thing to do would be to use the Epic project Tag, and apply it to goals-as-epics "tasks."
Another thing to consider is Phab's "Goal" category. Joel and the VE team are apparently going to experiment with that. I wish I could better explain where we landed, but I am still wrapping my head around it. Maybe one of the others could illuminate the issues more clearly than I? Max On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm creating epics to track the Discovery Department Q1 2015-16 goals > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q1_Goals#Discovery>, > and thought it might be useful to track organisation-wide progress towards > achieving their quarterly goals by having such epics have tagging them as > Q1 2015-16 goals. > > The epic tag already exists, but I would consider quarterly goals to be a > strict subset of epics: all quarterly goals are epics, but not all epics > are quarterly goals. > > Thoughts? > > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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