What's the usecase - who would use that project how? :)

Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Creating_and_renaming_projects

In T95171#1185682, @Aklapper wrote:

What's the usecase - who would use that project how? :)

My one-man team :)

I'd use that.

"me" is not an answer to "how will it be effectively used and for what and why". :)

How to manage such tasks then?

My question was: How will it be effectively used and for what and why? A counter-question is not an answer. :)

In general I do not want to create lots of tags/projects for the sake of having lots of tags/projects. And tagging creates costs (triage time).
If a software has no clear license, either its maintainers need to do their homework, or if things are more complicated WMF-Legal needs to get involved.

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In T95171#1189113, @Aklapper wrote:

"me" is not an answer to "how will it be effectively used and for what and why". :)

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In T95171#1193393, @Aklapper wrote:

My question was: How will it be effectively used and for what and why?

For example when a software's license is not clear, or when it needs to be changed to a more permissive one.

In general I do not want to create lots of tags/projects for the sake of having lots of tags/projects. And tagging creates costs (triage time).

It wouldn't be a real project, more like a tag as good first task or Epic.

You describe a categorization, but you still don't describe why and how having that categorization would be useful for anybody.

In T95171#1195723, @Aklapper wrote:

You describe a categorization, but you still don't describe why and how having that categorization would be useful for anybody.

I am conducting a lazy but extensive review of software licensing on Wikimedia. I presume I'll find more and more problems as I advance.

While creating projects is cheap in Phabricator, associating new tasks properly to projects has a cost (someone needs to triage incoming tickets) and gets harder the more projects there are. Hence I ask all these questions...

Sorry but I still don't feel like my question has been answered how that project will effectively be used. You're doing a review. That's very welcome. But how does a project help with that? So far it sounds like you'd like to create a list of items for yourself. What comes after that, and how will the existence of that project help make someone (like you) do anything about the tasks in that project?

In T95171#1233460, @Aklapper wrote:

someone needs to triage incoming tickets

That is up to the authors and maintainers of the software, and to you of course ;-)
I cannot and will not set a priority on tasks whose projects I don't maintain. I can only report them and suggest a possible solution.

Sorry but I still don't feel like my question has been answered how that project will effectively be used. You're doing a review. That's very welcome. But how does a project help with that? So far it sounds like you'd like to create a list of items for yourself. What comes after that, and how will the existence of that project help make someone (like you) do anything about the tasks in that project?

Identifying license issues at a glance, organizing what needs to be done in a workboard, etc.

Identifying license issues at a glance, organizing what needs to be done in a workboard, etc.

Are those theoretical needs or actual needs? Do you plan to organize software license issues on a workboard? How? :)

In T95171#1233863, @Aklapper wrote:

Do you plan to organize software license issues on a workboard? How? :)

Proof of concept :)

By the way, the new project can be a child of WMF-Legal.
They already have plenty of tasks about software licenses.

(Technically speaking there are no subprojects in Phabricator.)

I'm happy to see this created if WMF-Legal is also interested in its existence

In T95171#1409340, @Aklapper wrote:

(Technically speaking there are no subprojects in Phabricator.)

I know, but socially speaking Toolforge is a subproject of Cloud-Services etc.

In T95171#1541020, @Aklapper wrote:

Requested project Software-Licensing has been created

I'm glad you changed your mind.
25 tasks already!

In T95171#1541179, @Ricordisamoa wrote:

I'm glad you changed your mind.

Yeah I sometimes do. Thanks for your patience and arguments, @Ricordisamoa!