I like "category". "Team" also has a meaning in the WMF's phab instance[1]. So I would favor a different word there. You could coin a word like Teamscope (or TeamScope). Or how about Domain? Ooh, and that leads me to some of its synonyms: sphere or arena.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management#Types_of_Projects Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Joel Aufrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Phlogiston uses the term Project to refer to *all of the work that a team > is responsible for and doing*, which is not really what Phabricator uses > it for. So it's probably past time to change that in Phlogiston. It's > called project, source, project_source, and source_prefix in the code. > Examples include "Team Practices Group", "VisualEditor", "Reading Web", > "iOS". My first idea for a replacement is *team*. Is there a better term? > > Phlogiston uses Milestone to refer to *a collection of tasks that have > isolated from other tasks by one or more criteria* (membership in a > project, projectcolumn, or parent task) for purposes of reporting in > isolation from other tasks. This term has lots of different meanings to > different people, often with a connotation of finite-ness that is not > necessarily what it means in Phlogiston. The last straw is that > Phabricator now uses this term for a special kind of sub-project. Other > things this has been called: Tranche. Category. Bucket. Examples include > - Make VisualEditor good enough to use with all common IMEs for Japanese > - TPG Essential Functions > - Quick Surveys > - RTL > - Gadgets 2.0 > > I'm thinking of the fairly generic term "*category*", which isn't in > common usage in WMF teams I've worked with. Is there a better terms? Is > anyone using this to mean something? > > > > *--Joel Aufrecht* > Team Practices Group > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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