[teampractices] Better names for Project and Milestone in Phlogiston

[Joel Aufrecht]

Hi,

Phlogiston uses the term Project to refer to *all of the work that a team
is responsible for and doing*, which is not really what Phabricator uses it
for.  So it's probably past time to change that in Phlogiston.  It's called
project, source, project_source, and source_prefix in the code.  Examples
include "Team Practices Group", "VisualEditor", "Reading Web", "iOS".  My
first idea for a replacement is *team*. Is there a better term?

Phlogiston uses Milestone to refer to *a collection of tasks that have
isolated from other tasks by one or more criteria* (membership in a
project, projectcolumn, or parent task) for purposes of reporting in
isolation from other tasks.  This term has lots of different meanings to
different people, often with a connotation of finite-ness that is not
necessarily what it means in Phlogiston.  The last straw is that
Phabricator now uses this term for a special kind of sub-project.  Other
things this has been called: Tranche.  Category.  Bucket.  Examples include
 - Make VisualEditor good enough to use with all common IMEs for Japanese
 - TPG Essential Functions
 - Quick Surveys
 - RTL
 - Gadgets 2.0

I'm thinking of the fairly generic term "*category*", which isn't in common
usage in WMF teams I've worked with.  Is there a better terms?  Is anyone
using this to mean something?



*--Joel Aufrecht*
Team Practices Group
Wikimedia Foundation
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