[teampractices] Upcoming phab changes

[Mukunda Modell]

Thanks for writing this, Kevin.

We won't be enabling the 'core' points field during the initial upgrade.
That will happen after it's well tested and known not to break anything.

Forms is the most exciting feature but also project pages get a major
update and much of the user interface has been streamlined. Additionally,
there are literally too many bugs fixed to even bother listing them all
here.

If all goes according to plan this will be launched tonight between 5:00
and 7:00 Pacific, however, I don't currently have anyone from ops to
support me doing the upgrade so it may not happen at all.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> The "next" release of phabricator (scheduled for this Wednesday) is
> expected to have a lot of big changes. I'm not sure when it will happen,
> but the changes keep adding up.
>
> Some people will be excited by the new "Forms" feature, which (as I
> understand it) kind of sets up a template to structure the descriptions of
> certain types of tasks.
>
> Others are more interested in the integration of Story Points as a core
> phab field. This new field will only allow numeric values (no more "Big" as
> an estimate). The plan is to deprecate the existing sprint extension, as
> enough of its functionality will be built into phab (with the remainder in
> phragile). Speaking of phragile, it may be broken by this change,
> unless/until the new field is exposed through phab's API.
>
> What triggered this email, however, was that someone noticed over the
> weekend that tasks added to a board now default to the *bottom* of the
> column, rather than the *top*. Personally I think that's a good change, but
> it was unexpected, and could be an unpleasant surprise for a lot of people,
> unless they are told about it.
>
> This upgrade also fixes a lot of longstanding bugs and frustrations, so
> hooray for that. I don't know what other behavioral changes it has that
> aren't related to the main big features.
>
> Hopefully we can figure out an effective plan to communicate all these
> changes to interested parties.
>
> For more info:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/conpherence/308/
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Feb_2016_Upgrade
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120013
>
>
> Kevin Smith
> Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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