Add Knowledge::P* labels
Why is this change being made?
Last month we had a following discussion on the retrospective:
- Himanshu: We assign issues to “%Next 2-3 Milestones” or “%Next 4-6 Milestones” but we need to look at issues in those milestones monthly, otherwise issues stay in those milestones forever.
- Naman: we can have a due date.
- Himanshu: I like that idea.
- Vlad: question to the team: how do you raise issues to product.
- Himanshu: why don’t we just use priority labels? Right now we only using this for bugs.
- Vlad: we can define Knowledge::P1/P2/…
- Naman: we an use PL1/PL2 as “planning priority”
- Himanshu: I like the idea with due dates, but people may think we missing all the deadlines.
- Matthew Macfarlane: Yes we need to be careful with this. It can put expectations both internal and external that adds additional pressure.
- Naman: we can open an issue and discuss
After some discussion with @mmacfarlane we decided that we want to try using priority labels starting from the next milestone.
The idea is to also use them outside of the milestone for keeping track of issues:
- when someone thinks we should prioritize an issue, they add the priority label
- when selecting issues for the upcoming milestone PM and EM first review P1 issues, then P2, etc...
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- Add Knowledge::P* labels
Edited by Vladimir Shushlin