Re: [teampractices] project management tools

2018-02-01 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Anne Gomez wrote: > Hi! > > Has this group developed a list of project management tools anywhere? I'd > be curious to see what others have considered in the Wikimedia world. > > The page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange lists both FLOSS and proprieta

Re: [teampractices] 2 interesting articles about design

2016-08-08 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Max Binder wrote: > Interesting. I've always read that Sans Serif was better for screens, and > Serif was better for paper, but I'd buy that that was based on old-screen > protocol. The real question is, do you want to be that person who has the > funky font in Gma

Re: [teampractices] Keeping track of activity in tasks in phabricator

2016-05-18 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
I've recently started to use a Herald rule, to send me a single email (but not subscribe) when a new task is created (in a project I'm interested in). This way I can keep track of when people file new tasks. I can then selectively triage or subscribe to the tasks, as desired. See setup in this scr

Re: [teampractices] Some recent articles about the benefits and costs of collaboration

2016-05-09 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
and a couple more, slack-specific: https://blog.agilebits.com/2016/04/19/curing-our-slack-addiction/ http://qz.com/632016/why-im-breaking-up-with-slack/ On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Grace Gellerman wrote: > A spectrum of opinions on the benefits and costs of modern workplace > collaborati

Re: [teampractices] Phabricator workboards appear to show story point, WIP limit, AND count

2016-04-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Documenting this feature on > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management#Boards > is welcome, whoever finds 5 min & feels like understanding it :) > {{done}} - Hopefully that's clear; if not please rewrite! https://www.m

Re: [teampractices] "Maintenance" vs "New work"

2015-08-05 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
es/TechOps-2015-08-03#Updates > > Greg > > -- > | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | > > ___ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lis

[teampractices] Color schemes (was Re: Hazards of back-estimating backlog story points)

2015-08-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
losed. Third, we > will have to reconsider our assumptions about how big the unpointed VE > backlog is. > > > *Joel Aufrecht* > Team Practices Group > Wikimedia Foundation > > ___ > teampractices mailing list > teampractic

Re: [teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

2015-05-26 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
it a reality.* >> >> ___ >> teampractices mailing list >> teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >> >> > > ___ > teampractices mailing list >

Re: [teampractices] Why are WMF Department/team pages on mediawiki.org?

2015-05-21 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
t;>> >>> ___ >>> teampractices mailing list >>> teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Alex Monk >> VisualEditor/Editing team >> http

Re: [teampractices] More RelEng process documentation

2015-03-02 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
That 1st table, makes so many things clearer for me. So. Many. Things. Thank you, all! On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Chris McMahon wrote: > > I have amended the page at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Process > to discuss how the tools and frameworks we w

Re: [teampractices] ACTION REQUIRED for Sprint projects in Phabricator

2015-02-18 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Note: Previously, to get to a sprint workboard, we would just replace (in the URL) the word "project" with "sprint" Instead, we now need to *add* "sprint/" after the string "project/" So: Old: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/sprint/board/65/ (now a 404 error) New: https://phabricator.wikimedia.