I have been thinking about quarterly (and monthly) tags myself. Should we consider the creation of generic #2015-Q1 type of tags for general use? Then Release-Engineering-Team and anybody else could query them in combination with their own projects.

I have filled this task on my first day of Phabricator, it is attended to discuss about replacing our Wiki page of goals. So that is merely for RelEng discussion.

During our last checkin, we had no clue yet how to organize our milestones in Phabricator :-D

Feel free to create generic tags if it can be useful, we might come up with more specific tags for our team.

The context of those Release Engineering quarterly goals is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals

Meaning: at least every WMF Enginnering and Product team has quarterly goals. Therefore these generic tags for quarters should be useful for these teams at least. As Andre says, if you want to see only those affecting your project(s), you can filter those with a saved query.

I find these tags for quarters useful, but I don't want to push for them if I'm the only one panning to use them.

(And for the records: Project descriptions need to be clear that such quarters refer to Gregorian calendar and not to some fiscus year of some random country.)

1. I'm fine with generic wmf quarterly goal workboards, but I don't think we should do it until other teams agree that it's what we all should use to track wmf teams' quarterly goals (as reflected on eg https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals)

2. Regardless of 1, having team specific quarterly goal projects (in addition to those described in #1) would be my preference. I don't think the "just use a saved query" workaround is sufficient for the teams' needs (at least my team's). Just as some teams use projects like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ect-january-2015/, other teams should have the option of creating quarterly projects.

3. We (Release-Engineering-Team) haven't finalized *how* we're doing all of this yet, so anything at this point is probably premature :)

In T75729#819256, @greg wrote:

Just as some teams use projects like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ect-january-2015/, other teams should have the option of creating quarterly projects.

ECT-January-2015 is a sprint project. Anybody can create sprint projects at will without having to announce anything to Project-Creators. Therefore, if you want to create #releng-2014-q4 as sprint project (and not as tag), then you can just go ahead.

This is actually a good idea. If i.e. @Eloquence and Damon want to get all the high level WMF tasks of a quarter under the same umbrella, they could just create the sprint project, associate all the related tasks accordingly and create a workboard with columns like i.e. Not Started, In Progress, Delayed...

If you agree, we can forget about the generic quarterly goals for now, and resolve this task.

PS: If we create quarterly sprints, I would still consider using the Gregorian / natural numbers for quarters. Most humans in this planet won't understand that "2015 Q1" starts in July...

(everything else is fine)

In T75729#820756, @Qgil wrote:

PS: If we create quarterly sprints, I would still consider using the Gregorian / natural numbers for quarters. Most humans in this planet won't understand that "2015 Q1" starts in July...

Just to nit-pick: that's something that needs to be decided by Lila, not us :) SOOOOOO many places on the wiki would need to be changed

#Jan-Mar-2015 :)

@greg seems you have the possibility to create milestones in Phabricator. I have filled that task following a team meeting we had a few months ago.

In T75729#1061091, @greg wrote:

First one created: # releng-201415-q3

I've added "(January-March 2015)" to the description.

In T75729#1061745, @Aklapper wrote:

In T75729#1061091, @greg wrote:

First one created: # releng-201415-q3

I've added "(January-March 2015)" to the description.

:)