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PM Coverage for Gabriel Engel 2025-10-06 to 2025-10-17

Intent

This issue describes how broader group and team members are facilitating a Product Manager to take meaningful time away from work. The intent is that the PM isn't required to "catchup" before and after taking a well-deserved vacation.

🤝 Responsibilities

Include creating release post items, weekly triage issues, responding to community or customer requests, preparing a Kickoff video, prioritizing issues, responding to clarification in current milestone work, etc.

Priority Theme Context Link Primary Secondary
HIGH Hosted runners for GitLab Dedicated - Engineering & customer requests Internal Handbook @fzimmer @kkyrala
MEDIUM Hosted runners for GitLab.com requests Direction Page @DarrenEastman @kkyrala
HIGH Runner Core requests @DarrenEastman @adebayo_a

💪 Coverage Tasks

Include specific issue links for tasks to be completed. Solution validation issues to progress, kickoff, PI or GC prep, etc.

  • Hosted runners for GitLab Dedicated Interlock Progress - @fzimmer
  • Clarifying billing details for GitLab Dedicated with the new billing platform - @fzimmer @SeanHall
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📖 References

Here are some references for how I and my group generally works:

  • Group Process Handbook Page
  • Key direction pages for triaging
  • Additional References

✅ Issue Tasks

⭕ Opening Tasks

  • Assign to yourself
  • Title the issue PM Coverage for YOUR-NAME from XXXX-XX-XX until XXXX-XX-XX
  • Add an issue comment for your 📬 Follow-ups
  • Add an issue comment for your ♻️ Retrospective Thread
  • Assign due date for your last PTO day
  • Add any relevant references including direction pages, group handbook pages, etc
  • Fill in the Responsibilities table with broad based responsibilities. Consider adding a row that explains who to contact for any inquiries that fall outside of the specific Responsibilities mentioned.
  • Fill in the specific Coverage Tasks with distinct items to complete and assignees
  • Assign to anyone with a specific task or responsibility assigned to them
  • Share this issue in your section, stage and group Slack channels
  • Ensure you've assigned tasks via Time Off by Deel including assigning some tasks to a relevant #g_ , #s_ or #product slack channel
  • Review the guidelines to communicate your time off
  • Ensure your Time Off by Deel auto-responder points team members to this issue
  • Update your GitLab status to include a reference to this issue
  • (optional) Consider creating autoresponders for Gmail, LinkedIn Recruiter and other tools you use on your day to day.
  • (optional) Setup Slack apps for your time off, like Donut, Geekbot, etc.

❌ Closing Tasks

Edited by Gabriel Engel