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Add Huzaifa Iftikhar as backend maintainer of GitLab

Huzaifa Iftikhar requested to merge huzaifaiftikhar1-add-huzaifa-as-backend-maintainer into master

Trainee maintainer issue: #13148 (closed)

Overview

I've been at GitLab since September 2021 and working in the groupcompliance. I've also contributed to gitlab-org/gitlab as a community contributor before joining GitLab. I've become a database reviewer recently.

I've authored >120MRs and reviewed and approved 104 MRs in the gitlab-org/gitlab project. I've not received any controversial feedback on my MRs from the authors or the maintainers.

While reviewing MRs I always use the Conventional Comment format as suggested in our code review guidelines. I usually provide feedback with patches to the authors. I always explain the 'why?' part whenever suggesting a change instead of simply making a statement. I don't feel hesitant in asking questions regarding a code change I don't fully understand and also involve the domain experts when I don't have the required expertise. I always take the review-response SLO into account and respond to MRs as soon as possible to improve the code review cycle time. I try to support my suggestions by quoting our handbook to avoid any confusion.

Although, it doesn't happen often but whenever I hand off my review to a maintainer I mention the open threads that seem important and ask for their opinion as well. [1], [2], [3].

I care about the overall health of GitLab codebase and my suggestions are often related to the overall architecture, separation of concerns, tests, DRYness, and readability. Recently, I've observed that the MRs where I did the initial backend review had very minor or no suggestions from the maintainers.

Examples of reviews

MR Title MR Link Changes Trainee Maintainer Notes Link
Added read_usage_quotas ability to ProjectPolicy gitlab-org/gitlab!82396 (merged) +67 -6 #13148 (comment 873177762)
Limit audit events controller to 31 days date range gitlab-org/gitlab!83077 (merged) +54 -3 #13148 (comment 881676332)
Move compliance framework auditor to a new class gitlab-org/gitlab!82589 (merged) +133 -94 #13148 (comment 885615126)
Add ability to pre-date audit events gitlab-org/gitlab!84061 (merged) +152 -75 #13148 (comment 901041015)
PipelinesUsageApp: Buy Additional Minutes button gitlab-org/gitlab!83021 (merged) +229 -21 #13148 (comment 909857170)
Update batched background migration information with a migration detail page gitlab-org/gitlab!84929 (merged) +103 -2 #13148 (comment 920374042)
Remove ability for SSH key expiration to be optional gitlab-org/gitlab!85611 (merged) +87 -244 #13148 (comment 922194452)
Do not allow expired personal access tokens to work gitlab-org/gitlab!85399 (merged) +38 -538 #13148 (comment 925350774)
Add banner to inactive projects gitlab-org/gitlab!85711 (merged) +232 -4 #13148 (comment 948980855)
Add email to send to admin when a user is auto banned gitlab-org/gitlab!88057 (merged) +159 -76 #13148 (comment 955988988)
Geo: Turn read-only banner to warning gitlab-org/gitlab!87519 (merged) +210 -88 #13148 (comment 969839018)
Add auditEventsStreamingHeadersDestroy Mutation gitlab-org/gitlab!88408 (merged) +248 -3 #13148 (comment 992415979)

Reviews with no maintainer additions

Notes that enhanced maintainability/readability

Notes where potential issues were caught during the review

Notes with patches as part of the review

Things to improve

  • Need to keep an eye for anti-patterns and make sure they are not introduced.
  • Ensure that we don't return the error messages directly to the user as it could potentially reveal unintended information.
  • Keep expanding my knowledge even in the codebase area that's not specific to my domain expertise so that I can visualise the bigger picture.
  • Suggest authors to split the MR if it's huge.
  • Getting reviews from AppSec if the MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization, and authentication methods, or other items described in the security review guidelines.

@gitlab-org/maintainers/rails-backend please chime in below with your thoughts, and approve this MR if you agree.

Developer checklist

  • Before this MR is merged
    • Mention @gitlab-org/maintainers/rails-backend, if not done (this issue template should do this automatically)
    • Assign this issue to your manager
  • After this MR is merged
    • Request a maintainer from the #backend_maintainers Slack channel to add you as an Owner to gitlab-org/maintainers/rails-backend
    • Consider adding 'backend maintainer' to your Slack notification keywords

Manager checklist

Edited by Dennis Tang

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