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Project Board

thayumaanavan edited this page Apr 18, 2018 · 3 revisions

The Project Board, Kanban style

A Kanban board is basically a board with columns. Usually, these columns are Backlog/To do, Planned, In Progress and Done though other columns could exist and other companies may use them differently. Tickets are moved from one column to the next as they change status. This helps visualize what is being done rather than having a large list and having the status labeled on the list.

We use Github for issue tracking but we use the Kanban version of their issue tracking system. This means that all tickets will show up in the "Issues" tab but we are not using the Issues tab, we use the "Projects" tab instead which is organized to look like a Kanban style board.

Project Board Set Up

Project board will have 5 columns. The columns are as follows:

  1. To do
  2. Planned
  3. In Progress
  4. Review
  5. Done

To do

Tickets which are not slated for the upcoming release can be found here. These are sometimes large overarching features which will need to be broken down into smaller tickets or they can be already broken down.Tickets will be moved from the "To do" to the "Planned" column by the mods/co-mods.

Think of the Backlog as a memory dump of things that may need to be done in the future.

Planned

These are all the tickets/tasks that has been reviewed and is ready to be taken up. All the issues/PR created will automatically come to this column.(Automation enabled)

In Progress

These are tickets which are currently in progress. If you are working on a ticket it must be in this column. Re opened issues/PR will also come here.(Automation enabled)

Review

These are tickets which are currently in review by mods/co-mods.If mod/co-mod is working on reviewing the ticket, then they should be moving the ticket to this column.

Done

All closed issues/merged PR, closed unmerged PR's will come to this phase automatically.(Automation enabled)

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