Hi,

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks. Just wondering, do we have a graph somewhere that shows trends?
>

For Bugzilla we had http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/its.html and
http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/bugzilla_response_time.html but now we
miss graphs for Maniphest (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28 )

There is quite a gap between tasks created and tasks closed, and if that's
> normal each month then there needs to be some thought about how to fix the
> gap, yes?
>
Andre is the expert here, but he often says that all the free software
projects he is aware of have ever-growing lists of open tasks. In our case,
we also need to take into account these new factors:

* Phabricator is not only for bugs, and many new tasks that didn't have a
place in Bugzilla are being created.
* Several teams had tasks open in Mingle or Trello, and now they are
cloning them in Phabricator. They are not new, but count as new.
* Phabricator is not only for software development projects, and this is
becoming another source of new tasks.

Said that, I think that everybody would benefit from having more discipline

* including a % of old yet relevant tasks in current sprints
* marking tasks as "Needs Volunteer" if nobody in the current teams plans
to work on them
* declining tasks that have been around for a long time and are not
relevant, or not worth the effort of anybody

Your ideas are welcome to "How to address the long tail of low priority
tasks" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78639
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