We could also create a global tag called freezer / room101 (😉) to help developers to do this filtering. It would also allow us to get a high level overview of under resourced projects which i suspect would be helpful with planning and finding stewards for certain projects.
Without such a tag projects are forced to create their own tags/milestones/columns to manage these tasks (my team has done just this)
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 12:05 PM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with this approach, and also with moving tasks to a "freezer".
I support depreciating the use of "needs volunteer (developer)".
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -------- Original message --------From: James Hare jhare@wikimedia.org Date: 10/2/18 11:41 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia developers < wikitech-l@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@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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