I used to be able to click a tag, click "open tasks" on the sidebar and see a list of open reports for that project. (T89865 made that slower but still feasible, at least for people with good enough CPUs and networking.) Nowadays, I have no idea how to reach the same result in less than 10 clicks or so (e.g. manually building a query from Maniphest Advanced search).
Upstream task (with potential Phabricator extension code): T10308 Please undo some changes
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| rPHEX phabricator-extensions | |||
| rPHEX7824c06ba9fa Make "open tasks" appear by default on project profiles | |||
| rPHEX5b35cad87bcf Add descriptive text to the Burnup Chart and Open Tasks menuitems | |||
| rPHEXc857867635cc add ProjectOpenTasksProfilePanel from epriestley | |||
Going to the workboard is the default for most projects nowadays I guess, list all tasks, and requires one click.
The workboard is not a real list of tasks, is not a search, is hardly visible on most screens, and is not desired anyway (T89865).
This task does not block T89865. No matter if the workboard or the project description page or anything else available is displayed, you still won't have a link to "list of tasks in this project" by default. Hence removing that dependency. Please do not re-add. If you think it should be re-added, please instead explain why you think it is a dependency. Thanks.
This continues to annoy me a lot every day. It really does make me wonder whether the Phabricator developers are in a crusade against humanity's joy. (Most of the time I just give up, so I end up not knowing anything about the project's tasks. Perhaps it's some kind of patronising way to discourage people from finding more tasks than those they've been notified about? Are the developers worried that one might get sad by interacting too much with a project, and hoping that everyone will be happier by living in their little world?)
@Nemo_bis: Please stick to Phabricator etiquette when commenting. If you do not wish to contribute in a positive way to this discussion, I suggest you spend your time on other topics. Thanks.
@Aklapper: You have made it perfectly clear on several occasions that you have no empathy for @Nemo_bis's pain. To expect him to "contribute in a positive way" from that position is inhumane (and not even part of the Phabricator Etiquette). Please develop the necessary skills perhaps by your employer's training or leave @Nemo_bis alone.
Workboards should be disabled in most projects, and even when they're enabled they're not exactly user-friendly when you just want the list of tasks. I agree that this is horrible and wastes a few minutes of my time every day.
@Nemo_bis The only solution ridiculous workaround is to "Manage" the project, "Edit Menu", then add a custom link pointing to the list of open tasks (which you have to create with the advanced search). You have to do this for every project you care about. I did it for UploadWizard some time ago.
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In reply to T127903#2301883 by @scfc: To clarify my intention to add comment T127903#2301226: I referred to the second sentence in T127903#2300059 but I did not make that explicit. I'm sorry for that.
@Nemo_bis Please provide reasons for reopening the task which has been closed due to the existence of (simple) solution. Thank you.
So what exactly is a problem? Content-less sentences like this won't help anything. Please describe your needs, so those who are willing to help, can have an idea what they should actually focus on.
I want, for any random project, let's say… [rolls dice] MediaWiki-extensions-Babel, to be able to view the list of open tasks associated with this project no further than one click away from clicking on a project name such as the one above.
Right now, this requires (and this is a manual one-time action for each project) either converting the tag to a workboard, or adding a custom link in the sidebar like I described earlier.
Great, so we can move further now. Thank you, @matmarex.
OK. So let me verify if I understand you correctly: You want when clicking on MediaWiki-extensions-Babel to get to something like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/L_oS34qZWv3R/#R (± some filtering/grouping/ordering details)?
Also, please explain/elaborate what "converting the tag to a workboard" means. I would like to prevent misunderstandings. Thank you.
Yes. It's also fine for me if such a list is accessible directly (one click) from the page displayed on MediaWiki-extensions-Babel.
(I'd prefer it to be sorted by creation date rather than priority, but that's a minor detail I can live without. I think the fact that priority is pretty useless is specific to our installation and workflows.)
I can't really elaborate on workboards, I'm not sure how that even works. I'm not a big fan of them.
Thank you.
So then the issue is solved then by your own words:
Hence why I closed the task. ∎
I asked you to elaborate on what you mean by your own sentence "converting the tag to a workboard", because I don't have any idea what to imagine under that, how such conversion should work or look like... Hard to come up with possibilities and solutions if it is not clear what exactly you desire. :-/
So then the issue is solved then by your own words:
Hence why I closed the task. ∎
It's not solved because it requires manual action for every. single. project. That's not a fix.
Nope. Only for those, where someone requires that, as it is optional add-on to the current behavior. Obviously the most majority of users doesn't care.
Anyway, if someone doesn't like it, then s/he should file an upstream task about it (and link it here). Sure we can discuss it here round and round into eternity, but it won't be productive at all.
I've found an upstream task for this one, and they provided a phabricator extension to add that link for all projects (if I understood correctly): https://secure.phabricator.com/T10308#158036
Maybe we can install it here?
@Ciencia_Al_Poder: I've added the extension. Unfortunately it doesn't add the menu item by default so we still have to go to manage->configure menu and add the link to each project.
There is probably some way to mass-add it but I'm not sure how difficult that would be.
Extension does not seem to work correctly.
I added "Open Tasks" to the menu of a project but that link also lists resolved tasks. Query form on top shows no criteria (like "Any open") in the "Statuses" field.
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A recent Phabricator upgrade changed the "Manage project" to have an easy way to add a link to "Open Tasks". While this is a step in the right direction, it seems flawed in two ways:
A recent Phabricator upgrade changed the "Manage project" to have an easy way to add a link to "Open Tasks".
Just for clarity: this is a downstream extension, not part of the upstream, and lives here:
@epriestley Thanks. That's quite straight forward, I'll see what I can do with it. Meanwhile, I've proposed another one for T163848 at D627.
I think this has been implemented? I see such a link on most projects now, but I'm not sure if all have it.
Re-opening as MediaWiki-libs-WrappedString was recently created and did not have it by default. I've spot-checked a dozen or so other recently created projects and found the same there.
The reason these projects, and many other ones, now do have that link is because others and myself keep manually adding it everywhere. This task is about not needing to do that.
Thanks! :-) Looks like a clean solution. (Should the assignee be set to @mmodell again?)