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