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Add Mayra Cabrera as DB Maintainer

Mayra Cabrera requested to merge add-mayra-as-db-maintainer into master

Background

  • GitLab employee since October 2017 (2 years from now 🎉) - !7822 (merged)
  • Involved in different teams throughout my career on GitLab: Former Platform team, Former CI/CD team, Configure and Delivery/Infrastructure (currently).
  • Backend Maintainer since May 2019 - !22212 (merged)
  • Database Trainee since July 2019 - #4706 (closed)

As Database Trainee,

Becoming DB Maintainer

I still feel that I've a lot to learn, but given my DB reviews are mostly accurate, I feel confident that I can help our current DB maintainer with the workload distribution. When coming across an MR that is too complex, and in which I don't feel confident to approve, I'll defer to the other DB Maintainer (@abrandl) or ask for help to either the Database group (@gl-database) or the Database team (#g_database).

I'd also like to state the number of engineers keeps increasing every month. From Maintainer ratios, we're currently 133 backend engineers, so having only 2 DB maintainers is still a significant concern. Because of that:

  • I'd like to compromise DB Maintainers to mentor another 3 trainees to become DB maintainer by February 2020 and another 3 by May 2020

This would help us step into the direction of keeping the ratio of engineers per maintainer below 7, which is the same goal for Backend and Frontend departments. I've posted some ideas of how to achieve that on gitlab-org/database-team/team-tasks#10 (comment 234050933)

@abrandl what do you think?

Edited by Mayra Cabrera

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