[teampractices] Project/Sprint related changes in Wikimedia Phabricator

Fri Feb 20 16:09:19 UTC 2015

On 20 February 2015 at 07:07, Andre Klapper <aklapper at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> As you might know, we deployed a new software version of Phabricator
> about 48 hours ago (T86772) which changed a few things:
>
> * URLs require an additional "/project" in the path. Examples:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/sprint/view/935/ is now
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/view/935/
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/sprint/board/1015/ is now
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/board/1015/
> Please update potential links on-wiki.
>

Could you please send a copy of http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
to whoever made this change? Not cool.

> * Links to Phab project pages now go to the workboard instead of the
> project description page (cf. T89865). A new navigation bar for projects
> can be seen on the left. If loading the workboard takes some time and
> you just want the list of tasks, consider saving a custom query:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Custom_queries_in_Maniphest
> (You can share URLs of such queries among team members.)
>

Here, again, changing the semantic nature of existing URIs is very
unhelpful. I appreciate the desire to give people more useful information,
but breaking URIs is not a great way to do it.

J.
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

jforrester at wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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