Looks great Jan. But for some reason I m not able to see the emojis in my chrome browser. Does anyone else have the same issue?
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 6:13 PM Jan Piotrowski <piotrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > with the switch to GitHub for issues I started looking into GitHub > Project boards to help us manage Issues and Pull Requests. > > The first concrete result of this is ready for feedback: > > Apache Cordova - Platforms Pull Requests > https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/7 > > As the name implies, this board contains all Pull Requests for the > Platform repositories (ios, android, windows, osx, browser). It can be > used to 1) get an overview of all the PRs for several repositories at > the same time and 2) help us maintainers to find PRs to comment on, > test and approve or merge. > > The project board contains these columns: > > - 🐣 New PR / Untriaged (🤖/👩🔧) > - 👷 Blocked: Work in Progress (👩🔧) > - ⛔ Blocked: Tests failing (👩🔧) > - 💥 Blocked: Conflict (👩🔧) > - ⏳ Waiting for Review (👩🔧) > - 🙅 Pending Approval (🤖) > - ✅ Approved, waiting for Merge (🤖) > - 🏆 Merged, waiting for Release (🤖) > - ☠️ Closed/Abandoned (🤖) > - 🎈 Released (👩🔧) > > The columns itself should cover all the common cases we can encounter > with PRs (Did I miss anything that should be tracked?). > > The column a PR is currently located in is shown in the "Projects" > section of the sidebar of the PR on GitHub. Each time a PR is moved, > the PR gets a "<username> moved this from <foo> to <bar>" line added > at the bottom. The emojis make parsing these info bits a lot easier. > > New PRs can be added to this board a) semi-automatically by clicking > the "Cog" icon next to "Projects" in the sidebar of a PR on Github and > then selecting the board or b) by using the "Add cards" functionality > on the board itself. There is no way to fully automatically add new > PRs to this board yet [1]. > > The emojis at the end of the column description (🤖/👩🔧) explain who > is responsible for getting PRs into or out of a lane. As you can see > only the first 5 columns (and the last one) have to be handled > manually, the rest is automated. > Our "work" on this board is only to get all PRs from "New PR" to > "Waiting for Review" in the board. Then the automation takes over by > looking if a PR is approved, merged or closed on GitHub itself. At the > end we can manually track what PRs were released to users. > > > Feedback or Comments? > > If this is welcome, I will create identical project boards for tooling > and plugins. [2] > > Best, > Jan > > > > [1] If this project board is considered useful and will be used, there > are options to automatically add new PRs to this column via GitHub > apps. We certainly could use this, but I didn't want to spend the time > to configure this up front. > > [2] It will be interesting to see how the automation will work for > e.g. Plugins where we have >5 repositories. Probably we will also need > a workaround the "5 repo per project board" limit from Github via an > GitHub app. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > -- Regards, Gandhi "The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of others !!!"
