Wikimedia Editing/Process

This page is for brainstorming and, later, documentation about the editing department's process for (1) developing feature ideas based on input from all of the team's stakeholder, (2) refining and validating those ideas so that they become a roadmap of specific tasks, and (3) turning those tasks into production-ready code. This page primarily deals with feature ideas; once identified, bugs tend to skip steps 1 and 2 and jump directly to 3.

Key questions

 * Phabricator tasks are the focus for discussion and the unit of workflow management after ideas have been refined into specific to-dos. What specific digital entity should play the same role before that stage, when ideas are being tossed around and debated?
 * Pholio mocks, within Phabricator?
 * What other formal discussion channels, particularly meetings, should there be during stages 1 and 2?