We could also create a global tag called freezer / room101 (😉) to help developers to do this filtering. It would also allow us to get a high level overview of under resourced projects which i suspect would be helpful with planning and finding stewards for certain projects.
Without such a tag projects are forced to create their own tags/milestones/columns to manage these tasks (my team has done just this) On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 12:05 PM Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with this approach, and also with moving tasks to a "freezer". > > I support depreciating the use of "needs volunteer (developer)". > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > -------- Original message --------From: James Hare <[email protected]> > Date: 10/2/18 11:41 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia developers < > [email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] problematic use > of "Declined" in Phabricator > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:32 AM Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Realizing this, I think we need some mode of explicitly saying "we do > > not have any means to do it now or in near-term future, but we don't > > reject it completely and if we ever have resources or ways to do this, > > we might revisit this". > > > > We kinda sorta have this with "Stalled" status and "Need volunteer" tag, > > but we might want to get this status more prominent and distinguish > > "TODO" items outside of any planning cycle and the ones that are part of > > the ongoing development. And document it in the lifecycle document. > > > > I have found that setting the priority to "lowest" is the closest thing we > have to "this is a valid task but we are not going to invest paid time into > it." > > ---- > James Hare > Associate Product Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > https://wikimediafoundation.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson twitter: @jdlrobson linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorobson/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
