3:43 p.m.
Lanes in this board seem to represent who has responsibility for the
content at that moment--I've heard this described as, "Who has the pen?", in
the concept of a shared document but only one person can write/edit at a time.
What I'm envisioning is that e.g. during the Drafting phase, a writer may collaborate
with Shaun and other writers on language, approach, wording, etc. all while the card stays
in the Drafting lane--the pen is in the hand of the writer. Similarly, during the Editing
phase, Brian might be doing some back-and-forth with a writer to decide something. Or an
editor might do a whole batch of edits, and simply move the card back to Drafting or Draft
Review.
I guess I would say, maybe we should leave it up to individual writers, reviewers, and
editors at what granularity level they want to have back-and-forth while holding the card
in their board lane, and what granularity where they want to hand the card back for
someone else to hold the pen.
"Who has the pen?" I love that.
I also except that back-and-forth to happen a lot, mostly in the various
threads associated with issues themselves. Whoever "has the pen," as it
were, will likely be the person responsible for acting on the outcome of
the discussion, whatever it may be. If the conversation is happening
while the article is in Drafting, then most likely the author is that
person. If the conversation is going on while the article is in
Formatting, then I suspect that person is a technical editor. Those
kinds of norms tend to emerge organically, though, so we'll just have to
wait and see how the community's editorial culture develops (the
*really* fun part!).