Rename Pods team/category to Sharding
Summary
As we continue iterating towards providing horizontal scaling solutions to ensure GitLab is ready to support significant growth into the future we continue to iterate on the product and Group name.
As a product we settled on the product and Group name of Pods. We have since learned that Pods is not MECEFU and has the potential to cause significant confusion with Kubernetes Pods used extensively in GitLab.
After a discussion on the issue we have concluded that another name is needed. We have settled on silo
for the product.
We wanted a higher-level term for Group name as producing silos
won't be the only task this Group has. We have agreed to change the group name back to Sharding
- when talking about horizontal scaling the term Sharding
is synonymous with the horizontal scaling concept.
Approvals
-
CEO (Sid)
Informed
-
CTO (Jörg) -
VP Product (David) -
VP Development (Christopher) -
VP Infrastructure (Steve) -
VP Quality (Mek) -
Engineering Productivity -
Product Marketing Manager
Things to update
No Workflow Impact
-
Handbook pages -
/handbook/engineering/development/enablement/pods/
-
/handbook/engineering/development/enablement
-
/direction/enablement/pods
-
-
docs.gitlab.com -
Greenhouse Job Description and Title
Potential Workflow Impact
-
stages.yml
andcategory.yml
-
GitLab projects -
Gitlab Groups -
labels -
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ -
group::pods -
pods::active
-
-
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ -
group::pods -
pods::active
-
-
-
Slack channel names -
Change Slack channel references in stages.yml
-
Geekbot
-
-
Triage ops -
Update team.yml for relevant team members -
Update Ally.io - Requested access.
-
Update CODEOWNERS -
gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com
-
gitlab-org/gitlab
-
-
Update BambooHR -
Update Workday - [Slack Message to #people-connect]
-
YouTube Unfiltered Playlist. -
Create a new playlist
-
-
Rename Pods: Build
board -
Team Page -
Create MR when changes being referenced are completed. -
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/enablement/data_stores/pods -
Also change Product Counterpart to Joshua -
Add Kamil and Dylan as Team members.
-
-
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/enablement/data_stores/pods/planning.html
-
-
Pods Architecture Blueprint -
Change Pod/Pods
references toSilo/Silos
-
-
@pods-group Slack Group
Communications
-
Announce in: -
Slack: #s_enablement, #whats-happening-at-gitlab, #g_pods, #development, #vp-development, #cto
-
Proceeding Announcement -
Finished Announcement
-
-
Engineering Week in Review
-
Proceeding Announcement |
---|
Over the next few days I will be going through the process of renaming the Sharding Group to the Pods Group (#14500 (closed)). As you can see from the Issue this includes changes to Groups and Projects as well as 3rd party systems. I will keep the Issue updated on the progress of the different tasks and will update here again once they are all complete. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. |
Finished Announcement |
---|
Regarding renaming the Pods Group to Sharding (#14500 (closed)). All the tasks on the Issue are complete. Please let me know if there are any problems as a result of the work done here or you see anything that has been missed. |