[teampractices] Keeping track of activity in tasks in phabricator

[Kevin Smith]

It's not a helpful answer, but I use email, and just hit delete a lot.

It would be interesting to hear from product managers, since they touch
boatloads of tasks. I think a few are on this mailing list.



Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation


On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
jhernandez at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I wanted to ask about techniques for keeping track of phabricator tasks
> you're interested in and mentions in comments in a sane way.
>
> I used email before, but it got very noisy, so I've been using
> notifications extensively for some time, and that's mostly worked fine (I
> tweaked a bit what I get notified about).
>
> I go to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/notification/query/unread/ and
> check new activity, clear notifications I'm not interested by opening tabs
> and closing them without reading (yes, this sucks), leave the tabs of tasks
> I'm interested in open, and occasionally unsubscribe from tasks that I
> really don't want to know about.
>
> I've been having problems the more I take an active role in grooming
> backlogs and organizing tasks, since every time you do anything with a task
> (even moving it from column to column) you get subscribed to it, so the
> more you help, the more notifications you get, and that ends up creating a
> ton of noise for really keeping up with the development side of the tasks
> (in contrast with the organizing side of it).
>
> What other techniques do you use? How do you keep up? I'm interested to
> learn about other workflows.
>
> Thanks,
> Joaquin
>
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