I agree with this approach, and also with moving tasks to a "freezer".
I support depreciating the use of "needs volunteer (developer)". Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -------- Original message --------From: James Hare <jh...@wikimedia.org> Date: 10/2/18 11:41 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] problematic use of "Declined" in Phabricator On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:32 AM Stas Malyshev <smalys...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Realizing this, I think we need some mode of explicitly saying "we do > not have any means to do it now or in near-term future, but we don't > reject it completely and if we ever have resources or ways to do this, > we might revisit this". > > We kinda sorta have this with "Stalled" status and "Need volunteer" tag, > but we might want to get this status more prominent and distinguish > "TODO" items outside of any planning cycle and the ones that are part of > the ongoing development. And document it in the lifecycle document. > I have found that setting the priority to "lowest" is the closest thing we have to "this is a valid task but we are not going to invest paid time into it." ---- James Hare Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
