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."
>
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