Point Growth Slack references at #s_growth
Why is this change being made?
Growth is consolidating its three per-group Slack channels — #g_acquisition, #g_activation, #g_engagement — into the stage channel #s_growth. With the team operating in a pooled model the per-group channels fragment discussion without a current need, so they are being de-referenced everywhere and then archived. The change is reversible: if per-group channels are needed again they can be recreated and this reverted.
This MR updates the two hand-written handbook pages that name those channels:
content/handbook/engineering/development/growth/_index.md— the "Teams & Communication" section. The Slack channel moves out of the table and sits above it as a single link, since all four rows would otherwise repeat the same value. The table narrows to Team + GitLab Handle.content/handbook/marketing/growth/_index.md— the Acquisition team's Contact block.
The GitLab Handle values are unchanged. The three groups remain distinct groups with their own GitLab groups, group::* labels, and error budgets — only the Slack channel changes.
The auto-generated category pages (/handbook/product/categories/, .../features/, .../lookup/) render the channel from data/stages.yml in www-gitlab-com, which the handbook syncs at build time. Those are covered by a separate MR, linked below, and need no change here.
Verification
Run locally against this branch:
markdownlint-cli2on both files —Summary: 0 error(s).valeon both files — 0 errors. Warning count is identical with and without this change (8 on the engineering page), so it introduces no new findings; the existing ones are surnames and "signup"/"Saas" spellings on untouched lines.grep -rn 'g_acquisition\|g_activation\|g_engagement' content/— no matches remain.
Not run locally: the hugolint linkcheck job, which runs from a container image in CI.
Author and Reviewer Checklist
- Provided a concise title for this Merge Request (MR)
- Added a description to this MR explaining the reasons for the proposed change, per say why, not just what
- Assign reviewers for this MR to the correct DRI
- CODEOWNERS covers both paths:
@jeromezngfor/content/handbook/engineering/development/growth/, and@gdoud @manav-glfor/content/handbook/marketing/growth/.
- CODEOWNERS covers both paths:
- For transparency, share this MR with the audience that will be impacted.
- Team: share in
#s_growth - Department: not applicable — this affects the Growth stage only
- Division: not applicable
- Company: not applicable
- Team: share in
References
- Source issue: gitlab-org/growth/team-tasks#1012
- Canonical group data (
data/stages.yml): gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!144004 (merged) - Error budget report routing (
services/teams.yml): gitlab-com/runbooks!11225 (merged)