[teampractices] Phabricator's "Epic" tag...why?

[Bryan Davis]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out what benefits the Epic tag actually provides, and
> so far I haven't thought of any.
>
> Several teams are putting [EPIC] or EPIC: or [<four-letter-bird] in the
> title of epics, all of which do a better job of identifying epics than the
> Epic tag. The tag is only visible when you view the detail, whereas a
> freeform text identifier in the title is visible in workboards, lists, and
> even email notifications.
>
> I can't think of a case where it would be helpful to see all the epics in
> phab. I can't even think of a case where it would be helpful to filter all
> the epics within a project. And if you did, you could just filter on the
> word "epic" in the title, if teams chose that approach.
>
> So my bold question: Should we just eliminate (or at least deprecate) the
> Epic tag?

I used it all the time for MediaWiki-Core and even had a saved
workboard search to show only the epic tagged stories. What's so
horrible about it?

Bryan
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