Two thousand open issues and eight people willing to spend a Friday on them. The hard part is the twenty minutes at the start where you decide who takes what.
What goes wrong
The meeting where you decide who takes which issue range costs more than triaging a range. Then somebody joins late and the whole thing is renegotiated.
Bulk-assigning two hundred issues to make a triage rotation legible is noisy, hard to undo, and sends two hundred notifications.
Progress lives in eight heads. Halfway through the day there is no answer to "how much is left" short of asking everyone.
What the list looks like
Backlog sweep — Friday
One item per line, pasted from wherever you keep them. That paste is the entire setup — there is no project to configure.
How it runs
Issue ranges, one per line, straight out of a tracker export or typed in thirty seconds. There is no project to configure and nothing to integrate.
No two people open the same twenty issues. The batch disappears from everyone else's board the moment it is taken.
No bulk assignment, no labels, no webhook and no notification storm. The board is scaffolding for one day and it leaves nothing behind.
One number everybody can see, which is also the thing that keeps a sweep moving after lunch.
No, deliberately. An item is a line of text, so it works with whatever tracker you have, and nothing in your tracker changes because somebody took a batch here.
Paste them. Anything one-per-line works — an export column, a range per line, or issue titles. Blank lines and duplicates are dropped.
Yes, if you leave that on. Claimed and done are separate, so the progress bar is measuring triaged issues rather than good intentions.
It fits any sweep with countable items — a dependency upgrade across forty repos, a doc audit, a security review queue. The shape is what matters, not the subject.
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