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 -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery

On 7 March 2016 at 15:22, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: I'm not sure what you mean. Could you explain? Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery

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 -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

Hi, I rarely use this dashboard and I agree with you: when I look at it I can't imagine how hard it can be for you :) I have absolutely no objection. Le 04/03/2016 23:37, Dan Garry a écrit : 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 -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery