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Demote snippets from Editor category to feature under Source Code Management category

Sarah Waldner requested to merge sarahwaldner-master-patch-97492 into master

Demote Snippets to a feature and move it to the Source Code management category.

Additional detail and rationale here.

Closes gitlab-org/create-stage#12995 (closed)

TL;DR:

  1. Snippets aligns more closely with the personas and JTBD in the Source Code Management category
  2. Snippets is more appropriate as a feature versus a category because the scope of the product set is small and it is not recognized by analysts as a distinct product for which there exists competing companies solely focused on the offering.
  3. There is an organization-wide effort to get to 8 categories per stage. This change will put the Create stage at 8 categories allowing us to move Git LFS back to Source Code from Package where the category has lived for a couple years purely on the basis of needing Create to only have 8 categories.

Category Usage for historical tracking purposes

The number of new Snippets created each month - Sisense Chart

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Approvals

Merge requests with changes to stages and groups and significant changes to categories need to be created, approved, and/or merged by each of the below:

  • VP of Product @david
  • The Product Director relevant to the affected Section(s) - @ogolowinski !108078 (comment 1083297672)
  • The Engineering Director relevant to the affected Section(s) - @dsatcher
  • Director of Product Design @vkarnes

The following people need to be on the merge request so they stay informed:

  • Chief Technology Officer @edjdev
  • Vice President of Development @clefelhocz1
  • Vice President of Quality @meks
  • Vice President of User Experience @clenneville
  • The Product Marketing Manager relevant to the stage group(s) - !108078 (comment 1079339452)
  • Director of Technical Writing @susantacker

After Approvals and Merge

Edited by Susan Tacker

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