On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
So that we can start thinking about our short and long term futures, I've
had a Search-Department-Freezer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1218/> project created
to serve as our longer term backlog.
This backlog will contain any work which is not planned to be done in the
next few weeks, and will have tasks broken down by category. This will help
us figure out what's coming next, and help us start putting tasks in there
for our long term objectives. Mainly, I plan to use it to plan out our
future work, and give the team and stakeholders insight into what's coming
next.
My task today is to create a preliminary structure, and then we can
iterate from there. The structure of the backlog will evolve over time as
the team structure and work changes. The board may even be superseded by
another board. For now, I'll leave the backlog column of the
Search-Team-Project workboard as it is, but I would like to get together
with the team leads to triage that at some point.
The freezer is unsuitable for the storage of frozen goods.
Ultimately will we remove stuff from the wikimedia-search team so that we
continue to use the board for short term planning? I get that a single
backlog column in impossible for planning.