Team Practices Group/Measuring Types of Work

Category A
"Keeping the lights On"

Something essential will fail immediately (days? hours?) if this work is not done.

Category B
"Maintenance"

anything which keep search ticking, but doesn't related directly to our goals

Something essential will fail or degrade fairly soon (weeks? months?), or will cost much more to fix later, if this work is not done now.

Category C
"New Projects"

Functionality that is not currently available.

Uncategorized
Prototyping/Research

Tech Debt

responsive correction

meta-work

Category A
Supporting others

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects and who (if anyone) is tasked with fixing bugs in extensions/code that no existing team/individual is currently (officially) working on.

Category B
Internal to team goals

Category A
most strategic in terms of achieving our mission

Category B
Not Strategic. Shouldn't be doing it.

= What teams can measure today =

VisualEditor
All tasks in one big Phab project. "Tranche 0" projectcolumn contains all of Category A, most of Category B, but makes no distinction between A and B. Category C is accurately tracked (as the sum of everything else).