[teampractices] Phabricator for long-term planning and roadmaps

Tue Feb 3 13:50:45 UTC 2015

Hi,

Agile is all about short-term planning - sprints of two weeks or so. It is
assumed that long-term planning is much harder to commit to.

Nevertheless, some long-term planning is needed, even if the targets and
the dates have to be continuously adjusted.

Currently WMF teams present such plans in pages on mediawiki.org, Google
docs or Google spreadsheets. Examples:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Roadmap
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow#Roadmap
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Roadmap
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals

I'm not sure about other developers, PMs and managers, but I am repeatedly
irritated by it because this creates a lot of duplication, as things are
planned in at least two places. When there is duplication, there is always
a risk of going out of sync, so it sometimes happens that users expect a
feature to be delivered at a certain time, but a PM postponed it or dropped
it and forgot to update the mediawiki.org page and then the users are quite
rightly disappointed.

Is there any way to get Phabricator to auto-generate or synchronize such
roadmaps?

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