[teampractices] Phabricator's "Epic" tag...why?

Mon Jun 1 19:26:58 UTC 2015

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> I used it all the time for MediaWiki-Core and even had a saved
>> workboard search to show only the epic tagged stories. What's so
>> horrible about it?
>
>
> I am really curious to know why it was helpful to you to see all the epics.

We used them for quarterly planning and other roadmapping activities.
This was a replacement for our prior process of maintaining a wiki
page to track the things that the team was interested in working on
(or that other teams were asking us to work on in the future).

> If teams really do find the Epic tag helpful, I'm fine keeping it. However,
> I don't think any team should be obligated to use the Epic tag. What
> triggered this thread was getting a "reminder" that an epic wasn't tagged as
> such, and unless there is some tangible benefit to someone of adding that
> tag to that story (and similar stories in the future), I would prefer not to
> bother.

I have no personal desire to force a team or project into a particular
workflow. I'd rather not have my team's workflow changed so that you
don't get nagged by some undisclosed Phabricator user however.

Bryan
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