[teampractices] Better names for Project and Milestone in Phlogiston

[Kevin Smith]

I like "category".

"Team" also has a meaning in the WMF's phab instance[1]. So I would favor a
different word there. You could coin a word like Teamscope (or TeamScope).
Or how about Domain? Ooh, and that leads me to some of its synonyms: sphere
or arena.

[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management#Types_of_Projects


Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Joel Aufrecht <jaufrecht at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> 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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