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Adding Leading Organizations to the prioritization list

Nick Veenhof requested to merge nick_vh-master-patch-73975 into master

Why is this change being made?

There has been discussion on how to do prioritization for community contributions. We recently added a new initiative called Leading Organizations, where these organizations are entitled to an objective of 4 working days in which they should get a review that brings their MR closer to either a merged or closed state. This is proposal to add MRs from our Leading Organizations to our prioritization list so that it is clear what to do when we are in doubt. An earlier discussion can be seen at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D5JdVVOMshVWp-9DANaRKFgLlLCrT4LAqQDo6_vJCdo/edit#bookmark=id.m2g0yiighfvm.

Initially it was part of the same list, this is now split out to 2 lists, so that it becomes an orthogonal decision tree.

Pages impacted

Why 3? It's embedded in these pages

  1. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/principles/ vs https://nick-vh-master-patch-73975.about.gitlab-review.app/handbook/engineering/development/principles/
  2. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/quality/quality-engineering/bug-prioritization vs https://nick-vh-master-patch-73975.about.gitlab-review.app/handbook/engineering/quality/quality-engineering/bug-prioritization
  3. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/product-processes vs https://nick-vh-master-patch-73975.about.gitlab-review.app/handbook/product/product-processes

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Edited by Nick Veenhof

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