Re: [teampractices] Empathy vs compassion, when helping others

2017-02-24 Thread Mukunda Modell
Just in case it wasn't clear: that was my bad attempt at humor, nothing more. ☮ On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Mukunda Modell wrote: > I hear that breathing can be dangerous. Showers also. > > I apologize for adding precisely nothing useful to this otherwise > intere

Re: [teampractices] Empathy vs compassion, when helping others

2017-02-23 Thread Mukunda Modell
I hear that breathing can be dangerous. Showers also. I apologize for adding precisely nothing useful to this otherwise interesting and thought provoking thread. On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: > Thanks both for sharing those links. It quickly became clear to me that my > de

Re: [teampractices] Retrospectives: Getting deep and personal

2017-01-05 Thread Mukunda Modell
Neat idea! Thanks for sharing. On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Guillaume Lederrey wrote: > Thanks Kevin for the reminder! > > So here is a short description of the "Adjectives Game": > > First, note of warning, this game is probably getting deeper and more > personal than most team are comfortab

Re: [teampractices] How to best track the work within Phabricator Epic tasks

2017-01-05 Thread Mukunda Modell
turned out to be, or that > get scope creep. That's fine. If that's the case, though, ruthless grooming > into dedicated projects and Milestones seems appropriate. > > Regardless, it seems like all of these approaches benefit from having > someone who pays attention to the growi

Re: [teampractices] How to best track the work within Phabricator Epic tasks

2016-10-12 Thread Mukunda Modell
For tasks with many tiny subtasks, I choose to outline them in the description and avoid creating separate subtasks. For bigger 'epic' tasks, it might be better to collect them together under a milestone in the parent project. For tasks with several interdependent sub-tasks I think the phabricato

Re: [teampractices] [FYI] Annual review cadence

2016-08-08 Thread Mukunda Modell
Sounds promising to me. I find the feedback is helpful but the annual review seems to be fairly daunting for everyone and not terribly effective. On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: > Recently, we have had some conversations within TPG about the pros and > cons of annual (and quar

Re: [teampractices] Good article on why we don’t like what we struggle to categorize

2016-06-14 Thread Mukunda Modell
This is really an interesting topic to me personally because I spent a year at deviantART working on a faceted ontology to classify art works by facets such as Form, Medium, Technique and Genre. It was a really hard technical problem to solve and we never really finished that work before deviantART

Re: [teampractices] [ANY] Looking for live example of a Phabricator custom form

2016-04-15 Thread Mukunda Modell
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Max Binder wrote: > You can require certain projects for all task creations going through your >> creation form, but then the user can't add any extra projects themselves >> (AFAIK). > > > Do you happen to know if Alex is correct about this? > > Almost correct bu

Re: [teampractices] [ANY] Looking for live example of a Phabricator custom form

2016-04-15 Thread Mukunda Modell
I created a custom form just to demonstrate the possibilities and encourage people to request custom forms. Simply submit the example to request your own custom form: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/17/ On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Alex Monk wrote: > To get a cust

Re: [teampractices] Code review social norms

2016-03-15 Thread Mukunda Modell
Tweaking the code during merge is actually something differential / arcanist already supports. It's amending someone else's revision (outside of the merge process) that is currently prevented in arcanist. That's why I wrote https://secure.phabricator.com/D15468 and proposed it to upstream. I inadve

Re: [teampractices] Code review social norms

2016-03-15 Thread Mukunda Modell
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: > > I would mention that in some cases, I would prefer to accept the commit as > is, and then perform minor refactoring, such as changing a name, fixing a > typo, or rearranging the code. Not only does that clearly separate > authorship, but it

Re: [teampractices] [FYI] connection between great teams and psychological safety

2016-02-29 Thread Mukunda Modell
> > psychological safety — a group culture that the Harvard Business School > professor Amy Edmondson defines as a ‘‘shared belief held by members of a > team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking.’’ Psychological > safety is ‘‘a sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, r

Re: [teampractices] Initial impressions of functionality of sub-projects and milestones

2016-02-22 Thread Mukunda Modell
That sounds like a bug to me - we shouldn't have to retain the prefixes - I'll report that upstream. On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Joel Aufrecht, 20/02/2016 00:16: > >> Subprojects often appear in the UI as Project > sub-project, but they >> appear in name comple

Re: [teampractices] Upcoming phab changes

2016-02-17 Thread Mukunda Modell
Thanks for writing this, Kevin. We won't be enabling the 'core' points field during the initial upgrade. That will happen after it's well tested and known not to break anything. Forms is the most exciting feature but also project pages get a major update and much of the user interface has been st

Re: [teampractices] Interesting post by lead of Twitter's Eng Effectiveness group

2015-10-20 Thread Mukunda Modell
Thank's for sharing, Grace! It's a good article and very thought provoking. Ever since I started as a Release Engineer, more than a year ago, I have been very frustrated by similar issues to those highlighted in this article. The WMF really could benefit a lot from better developer tooling and be

Re: [teampractices] Interesting article on over-communication

2015-08-21 Thread Mukunda Modell
The ideas they are advocating strike me as the antithesis of how things are done at wikimedia. I often feel a significant friction and opposition to changing anything, to the point where it feels difficult to get anything done because we must spend as much time explaining and defending an idea as

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator dashboards and saved searches

2015-06-25 Thread Mukunda Modell
Phabricator _does_ support replacing the username in shared search links. See "saving and sharing queries" on https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/search/ To make the username dynamic simply select the magnifying-glass icon in any search field that takes a username, and select "

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator dashboards and saved searches

2015-06-25 Thread Mukunda Modell
I have a couple of useful saved searches: Non-stalled: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/IkTiXHryIEDj/ This finds all assigned, open tasks excluding the tasks set to stalled. I use this as my default search so that I see the things I should be working on actively Tasks by activit