Qgil added a subscriber: Awjrichards. Qgil added projects: MediaWiki-extensions-WikidataRepo, need-volunteer. Qgil added a comment.
I kept thinking about this. There is one subtle change that we might have made by moving to kanban-inspired Phabricator, simplifying Priority levels, getting rid of Severity, and bringing workboards for everybody. Now Priority is a subjective and changing value based on the current understanding of the maintainer(s), while before it was more of an objective value that wouldn't change easily. Now a task is Low, Normal or High basically depending on current needs and possibilities to address the specific task in the short term. Priority is a tool to push tasks up & down in backlogs, and into sprints. Let me illustrate this with an example: Bug 53247 - History and diff pages should show labels of properties and items in edit summaries ([[ https://old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53247 | old-bugzilla link ]]) Importance: High normal Keywords: #need-volunteer Today this is {T55247}, which is one of the 82 High priority open tasks of #mediawiki-extensions-wikidatarepo. According to the [[ https://old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_activity.cgi?id=53247 | history of the bug ]], it was reported on 2013-10-17 and it has been marked as High and need-volunteer since 2014-02-26. There hasn't been any progress since 2014-03-11. In my opinion, T55247 doesn't look like a real High priority task, but as a real Needs Volunteer priority task. Every project can organize themselves in the way that works best for them, but from the point of view of the Phabricator maintainers, who need to provide the defaults for all the teams, we believe it is better to offer a default to identify as High priority those tasks that will be acted upon sooner than later, and as Needs Volunteer those tasks that none of the regular contributors of a project is planning to work on. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. To: Qgil Cc: wikidata-bugs, Qgil, chasemp, scfc, Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, hoo, Awjrichards, jeremyb _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
