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Just filing a task for now as a placeholder. I am meeting with TPG this week to brainstorm. See a previous attempt of this at quarterly reviews of incident reports: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation#Quarterly.28ish.29_reviews_of_post-mortems See also: {T123753}

Plan of action -------------- >>! In T141287#2565426, @greg wrote: > One easy thing to do would be to ping all of the very old tasks (eg: [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/DUJcbxS3HT3g/#R | tasks who's last update was me adding them to #wikimedia-incident on July 27+28th]]) with a note like: > >> "This task is a follow-up action from an incident report and has not recently seen updates. If this is no longer a valid task/actionable or it has been superseded by another one, please indicate as such. If it is still valid you should prioritize this work appropriately in your team/personal backlog. If you have any questions feel free to ask me (Greg Grossmeier)." > (wordsmithing appreciated if this idea makes sense) > > It might make sense to rerun that query at the end of this quarter so that there is more than 20 days from when I added #wikimedia-incident (there'd be ~60 days). NB: When I went through and added #wikimedia-incident to those tasks I only made it as far back as May 2016 see: T141493#2500584. It's tedious. > > tl;dr: One common statement in the meeting we had was ~"awareness is useful, and people forget, so reminding them is good". This above proposal seems like a low-cost method of doing that. Original-ish description ------------------------ Just filing a task for now as a placeholder. I am meeting with TPG this week to brainstorm. See a previous attempt of this at quarterly reviews of incident reports: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation#Quarterly.28ish.29_reviews_of_post-mortems See also: {T123753}

Plan of action -------------- >>! In T141287#2565426, @greg wrote: > One easy thing to do would be to ping all of the very old tasks (eg: [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/DUJcbxS3HT3g/#R | tasks who's last update was me adding them to #wikimedia-incident on July 27+28th]]) with a note like: > >> "This task is a follow-up action from an incident report and has not recently seen updates. If this is no longer a valid task/actionable or it has been superseded by another one, please indicate as such. If it is still valid you should prioritize this work appropriately in your team/personal backlog. If you have any questions feel free to ask me (Greg Grossmeier)." > (wordsmithing appreciated if this idea makes sense) > > It might make sense to rerun that query at the end of this quarter so that there is more than 20 days from when I added #wikimedia-incident (there'd be ~60 days). NB: When I went through and added #wikimedia-incident to those tasks I only made it as far back as May 2016 see: T141493#2500584. It's tedious. > > tl;dr: One common statement in the meeting we had was ~"awareness is useful, and people forget, so reminding them is good". This above proposal seems like a low-cost method of doing that. Original-ish description ------------------------ Just filing a task for now as a placeholder. I am meeting with TPG this week to brainstorm. See a previous attempt of this at quarterly reviews of incident reports: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation#Quarterly.28ish.29_reviews_of_post-mortems See also: {T123753}