Talk:Reading/Web/Phabricator

The equivalent Phabricator process outline for Wikimedia Discovery can be found at Wikimedia Discovery/Process#Workflow_and_Phabricator. It is a living document describing a process undergoing continual improvement, of course. --KSmith (WMF) (talk) 20:50, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Updates to Epics and Two-week rule

Thanks for updating, Jon! Two quick things stood out to me:

- "An epic is any task which takes a non-trivial amount of time to resolve." It might be good to be more specific here. I read "trivial" and think "that means something that can be done faster than making a ticket" which would mean "non-trivial" is everything else. An alternative definition could be "and epic is big chunk of work that encompasses many smaller chunks of work, and often takes more than a couple of dev cycles to finish." I think you basically said this, so maybe I am just nitpicking the language. :)

- "If a task has been in any given column for longer than 2 weeks, then something it is wrong." YES. But also true for fewer than 2 weeks. I would find it weird if a task was in Doing for 2 weeks. I would expect a task to be resolved within 2 weeks, and if not then it's worth asking all your good questions (which might also benefit from "was the task too large to start with"). :-D

@MBinder (WMF): Do the new edits help with this Max? Jdlrobson (talk) 01:35, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Jdlrobson: Yea, I think so. I'm not sure "6 epics" is the recommended maximum, but that's up for debate. :)