Another option for personal categorization:  'flags' - it's the phabricator
equivalent of bookmarks. Flags are personal, not shared publicly.

A bit more info about flags is at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102812

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 8:14 AM, David Causse <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for all the suggestions,
>
> If I sum up (in no particular order):
>
> - tracking tasks:
>   pros: everyone can do it
>   cons: requires a lot of manual steps to classify, possible confusions
> with existing hierarchy, hard to search
> - tags
>   pros: seems to be perfect
>   cons: requires special perms, could lead to tons of meaningless tags if
> it was open
> - keywords in description
>   pros: flexible because non structured
>   cons: no special tools in phab to manage them, easy to get lost
> - single tag with workboard and columns
>   pros: good compromise
>   cons: affected columns are not displayed everywhere, cannot assign to
> multiple columns, requires 2 steps to classify, cannot search a specific
> column
>
> Tags remain the ideal solution imo.
>
> I see that phabricator added a notion of subproject recently could it help
> in this case?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Le 08/07/2016 08:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
>
>> Chase Pettet, 07/07/2016 23:07:
>>
>>> I think the ideal is that a task has finite work and is eventually
>>> closed.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, this is the reason some dislike the tracking tasks; not a problem if
>> you create reports for, say, 12 different classes of actionable search
>> problems and add a handful blockers for each.
>>
>> (A contributing factor was that Phabricator's support for dependencies
>> between tasks is awful: hard to add, no flexibility in notifications, no
>> charts, no searchability. Tracking tasks were very powerful in bugzilla,
>> not so much in Phabricator.)
>>
>> Nemo
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