Hello all!
I’m writing to solicit feedback on a plan to slightly rework the Discovery
workboards on Phabricator.
Back when we were assembling the team and putting the process together, I
expressed a strong desire to have a centralised Discovery workboard which
would contain every task related to Discovery’s work. In the end, I’d say
that hasn’t really worked out, because there’s simply too many tasks in the
workboard and too much in flight. It’s been hard to sensibly break things
down into different categories of task on a per-project basis. To help
alleviate this problem, here’s my proposal:
- The Discovery workboard is disabled.
- The Discovery tag will continue to exist as a parent-tag for
Discovery’s work, but there will be no associated workboard.
- Individual backlog workboards can be created for individual projects
at the request of that team, for example:
- Discovery-Search-Backlog
- Discovery-Analysis-Backlog
- Sprint boards will remain exactly as they are presently.
How will this affect you? Firstly, this won’t affect you at all unless you
spend a significant amount of time in the Discovery backlog, which should
mostly be! Otherwise, nothing will really change for you. The workflow of
engineers working on Maps and Wikidata Query Service, for example, will
likely be completely unaffected by this change.
As I’m the primary consumer of the Discovery board, and it’s not working
very well for me at the minute, I’d like to move forwards with this
proposal unless there are any strong objections. Kevin and I will handle
all the logistics.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Dan
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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
