[teampractices] The "Epic" tag

S Page spage at wikimedia.org
Fri Dec 19 19:24:57 UTC 2014


I mentioned this in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management#Scope_of_tasks

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Chad recently created the "Epic" Phab tag
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/epic/> for our use in the
> MediaWiki Core team (for this epic
> <http://scrummethodology.com/scrum-epics/>, not this epic
> <http://imgur.com/gallery/Yr0tw>).  Basically, we want to use Phabricator
> to track project ideas big enough to merit discussion during our quarterly
> planning.
>
> This doesn't seem like a concept that's too specific to MWCore's use case,
> so much so that I'd like to evangelize its use.  Any reason not to make
> this more widespread?  Would it be ok for non-team members (e.g. me
> assuming I'm not on your team) to start tagging things that look like epics
> in your projects?  I'm thinking that, at a minimum, things we identify in
> the quarterly planning process
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals/Q3> should
> have Phabricator epics associated with them.
>
> Rob
>
>
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