Sarah's prep issue for Dev Section 15.5 kickoff call
Hi everyone! My name is Sarah and I am the Group Manager of Product for the Create stage. I am here today to talk about the exciting things coming in 15.5 for the Dev Section.
Manage Stage
Starting with the Manage stage, the Authorization and Authentication group will be working on the MVC for Enterprise users which will enable 1. group owners to claim any existing users that match any of their domains and make them Enterprise Users, giving that company tighter control over those users accounts. The Auth group will also be working on Group SCIM for Self-Managed accounts which today is only available to GitLab.com customers.
The Optimize group will be starting work on customizable dashboard that allows executives to compare different value stream metrics for their organizations. We understand that executive's time is very valuable and our goal with this dashboard is to make it easy for these individuals to view and track against metrics that are critical to their business.
The import group is going to be making progress on the GitHub Importer. Specifically the team will be building out options for users to import activity events on merge requests and issues, continuing to make the importer more comprehensive.
And finally, our Workspace group will be working on creating a new API that lists the entities that will be deleted when deleting a user. This is helpful for administrators to get an understanding of that user's reach and contributions in an instance before deleting that user.
Create Stage
From the create stage, the code review group will be continuing to work on real-time merge request reviewers and beginning efforts on making the merge widget respond in real-time to other actions on the page.
the Editor group will be Working toward the ability to toggle between the "new" Web IDE and the "classic" Web IDE. As we announced a few months ago, we are replacing our Web IDE with VS Code which will significantly extend and improve the usability of the IDE.
The Source Code group will be putting the finishing touches on some major usability improvements for source code rules. We've implemented a framework and consolidated all controlling rules to a single place which improves the discoverability and intelligibility of the settings. Rules will now be organized by branches rather than type of rule.
Plan stage
For the Plan stage, the Certify group will be tackling a highly requested change. We will be updating Internal Notes to only be viewable or createable by users with at least the Reporter role. Limiting the visibility of internal notes to Reporter and above (and not Authors that don't belong to the project and Guests) gives organizations assurance that information in these notes will only be visible to members of their org.
Our project management group is be continuing to improve Tasks after their exciting release a couple milestones ago. In 15.5 the team will add labels and start/end dates, making it easier to and categorize them and plan completion.
Portfolio planning will be making progress towards enabling epics to house issues from different group hierarchies. This is a highly requested improvement which will streamline program management for large scale projects.
And finally, the Integrations team will be building the first iteration to support Automated API Docs Generation, starting with building a task to generate markdown docs from Grape. Once complete, this will save significant time for development teams both in creation and consumption of API documentation.
Thank you so much, David back to you.