I agree with this approach, and also with moving tasks to a "freezer".
I support depreciating the use of "needs volunteer (developer)".
Pine
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-------- Original message --------From: James Hare <jhare(a)wikimedia.org> Date:
10/2/18 11:41 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia developers
<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] problematic use of
"Declined" in Phabricator
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:32 AM Stas Malyshev <smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Realizing this, I think we need some mode of
explicitly saying "we do
not have any means to do it now or in near-term future, but we don't
reject it completely and if we ever have resources or ways to do this,
we might revisit this".
We kinda sorta have this with "Stalled" status and "Need volunteer"
tag,
but we might want to get this status more prominent and distinguish
"TODO" items outside of any planning cycle and the ones that are part of
the ongoing development. And document it in the lifecycle document.
I have found that setting the priority to "lowest" is the closest thing we
have to "this is a valid task but we are not going to invest paid time into
it."
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James Hare
Associate Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.org
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