[teampractices] Impressions about the switch from Trello to Phabricator

[Quim Gil]

This is a discussion relevant to

Decide how to organize iterations and releases
http://fab.wmflabs.org/T166


On Thursday, May 15, 2014, James Forrester <jforrester at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On 15 May 2014 01:31, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swalling at wikimedia.org');>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Prateek Saxena <psaxena at wikimedia.org<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','psaxena at wikimedia.org');>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> In the video [1] where Shahyar introduces Phabricator I think he
>>> suggests that we make "disposable projects" for each sprint. Removing
>>> all the users from the project once the sprint is done so that it
>>> doesn't show up in the feeds but is still their for documentation.
>>>
>>
I have tried to define this process step by step at
http://fab.wmflabs.org/T166#29 . Feedback welcome.


> That seems like a lot of excess work, considering that each time you make
>> a project you have to manage membership from scratch etc.
>>
>
Why you need to manage membership from scratch? These are disposable
projects, all referring to the mother project, where you can define team
members.

How are sprints organized in Trello? Do you have an automatic process or do
you need to create sprints manually?


>
> ​The idea was that the projects would be automatically created. Doing it
> manually would be sub-optimal, yes
>

This is indeed the idea upstream (
https://secure.phabricator.com/T390#21), but that feature is not
implemented yet.

Although the current manual approach is not ideal, I don't think it brings
much overhead either. Creating projects is easy (only a title is required,
add a stock description if you will), copying or moving a batch of tasks
from a sprint to another is also easy.

>

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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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