[teampractices] Trellos & Minglers, what is blocking your migration to Phabricator?

Thu Oct 23 19:12:41 UTC 2014

Now you can track the WMF Phabricator migration progress here and in the
subtasks for each team:

Goal: The majority of WMF developer teams and sprints have moved to
Phabricator
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T825

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Dan Garry <dgarry at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Let's not turn this in to a debate about the advantages of native
> applications over mobile web pages. :-)

Phabricator doesn't beat a Trello appp but is very capable in mobile
browsers. Details below.

Basically, what's blocking me is a lack of understanding of Phabricator and
> a lack of time to poke around in it to try to replicate a similar
> experience to that I get from Trello. I have doubts that Phabricator has
> everything I need, especially since I have yet to be consulted before being
> faced with this migration deadline. What would help is for someone to build
> out example Phabricator boards for my team's current and next sprints, and
> to prove me wrong about thinking it lacks the required functionality.
>

Dan, I'm happy to sit next to you and your current Trello sprints, recreate
a test in http://phab-01.wmflabs.org, answer your questions, dissipate FUD.
I'm also happy in joining one of your team meetings to observe how your
work, and whether anything you do is not possible in Phabricator.

For what is worth, this week I had a session with Kristen Lans, she had a
great collection of questions and comments, and we were very happy of how
Phabricator had gone through the test.

MOBILE & REAL-TIME

About mobile features... if we are talking about blockers as in "my team
cannot migrate to Phabricator until this is fixed", I don't see any. You
can create, edit, assign, prioritize, and comment on tasks with your mobile
browser (and some of these actions can be performed simply replying to
notifications over email). You can create sprints and workboards too, and
other actions less frequent.

As of today you cannot move tasks in workboards from a mobile device. You
can get push notifications when someone updates the page you are looking
at, but simultaneous real-time editing is not there.

While these features will save you time and pains in Trello, at the end
what counts is the total sum of time and pains that you accumulate using
one tool or another. I have no doubt that joining the common project
management pool in Phabricator will save a lot of time and lots of pains
compared to any other situation.
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