[teampractices] Make a tag for quarterly goals?

[Max Binder]

Hey Dan,

This has been an ongoing and as yet unresolved point of discussion with
some teams. There are concerns about goals-as-epics, from a long-term
process perspective, as well as overwhelming Phab with proprietary tags (a
problem that Bugzilla apparently suffered). Andre, Joel A, Kevin S,
Kristen, and I all chatted at some point about this on
#wikimedia-teampractices. While I can't say we found ultimate resolution,
we did decide that the simplest thing to do would be to use the Epic
project Tag, and apply it to goals-as-epics "tasks."

Another thing to consider is Phab's "Goal" category. Joel and the VE team
are apparently going to experiment with that.

I wish I could better explain where we landed, but I am still wrapping my
head around it. Maybe one of the others could illuminate the issues more
clearly than I?

Max

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Dan Garry <dgarry at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I'm creating epics to track the Discovery Department Q1 2015-16 goals
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q1_Goals#Discovery>,
> and thought it might be useful to track organisation-wide progress towards
> achieving their quarterly goals by having such epics have tagging them as
> Q1 2015-16 goals.
>
> The epic tag already exists, but I would consider quarterly goals to be a
> strict subset of epics: all quarterly goals are epics, but not all epics
> are quarterly goals.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dan
>
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> Dan Garry
> Product Manager, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
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