On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 9:58 AM Giovanni Tirloni gtirloni@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 12/12/18 2:39 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote:
I think my main points here are: 1) I see a problem with the amount of open tasks we have (and I'm not sure others agree, please provide your feedback)
I checked the tags below and it seems we might have 200-300 tasks in total? I couldn't get a definite number from Phabricator but I expected more.
If those represent all of our work and the number really is 200-300, maybe my proposal is an overreaction and we should save it for when we hit the 500-1000 mark, if ever.
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Thanks for the constructive conversation, much appreciated.
The discussion here was constructive, so thank you all for that on what can be a contentious issue in our larger technical community.
Giovanni, I would recommend that you have a discussion with Andre about ideas you may have for large scale workflow changes in Phabricator even if they are confided to "our" projects/tags. In his "bugmaster" role Andre has spent a lot of time documenting common practices in our community and comparing them to other communities he has worked with or studied. My current feeling is that it is appropriate to close tickets which are related to projects that have been abandoned and undeployed. For most others I would recommend the "lowest" prioritization approach that Andrew mentioned. I do agree that this makes viewing some tags in exclusion like the "all mail" problem you mentioned, but we do have our own tags that we can add/remove from issues to make tracking a bit less chaotic.
Bryan