They're all 4-letter animal names that allow us to quickly see what "project" a task belongs to, from a workboard. If you look at the first column of our kanban board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/analytics-kanban/ you'll see that there's a task for each animal. We try to order these "project" tasks top to bottom in order of decreasing priority.

This is just a somewhat silly thing we do and it helps us, but we don't document it or spread it because we don't expect anyone else to follow the convention. Hope that helps :)

Dan

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:06 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:

What is the meaning of these suffixes added to Phabricator summaries.

e.g.s flea: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121550 hawk: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125731 dove: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114884 slug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118402 lama: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115590 kudu: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118310 crow: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123944 oryx: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76795 lion: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89924

They dont appear to be documented in an easy to find location

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=oryx&title=Special%3ASearch...

-- John Vandenberg

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