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Make Plan responsible for real-time rollout

John Hope requested to merge jh-plan-responsible-for-action-cable into master

Why is this change being made?

Designates a directly responsible group for the rollout of real-time features on GitLab.

Why devopsplan:

  • Maintains momentum on real-time development, gradually shrinking the problem’s surface area until the new SEG is ready to fully take it over.
  • Allows the new SEG to focus on the tricky problem of conflict resolution for collaborative editing using CRDTs/OT.
  • Plan already have the single WebSocket connection on the issue page that can be reused to implement other real-time features on that page with no additional cost.
  • Plan is best-placed to help other teams roll out new features:
    • With general development using GraphQL Subscriptions over WebSockets.
    • By estimating the number of new connections required for each new feature and rolling them out safely at scale.

Author Checklist

  • Provided a concise title for the MR
  • Added a description to this MR explaining the reasons for the proposed change, per say-why-not-just-what
  • Assign this change to the correct DRI
    • If the DRI for the page/s being updated isn’t immediately clear, then assign it to one of the people listed in the "Maintained by" section in on the page being edited.
    • If your manager does not have merge rights, please ask someone to merge it AFTER it has been approved by your manager in #mr-buddies.
    • If the changes relate to any part of the project other than updates to content and/or data files please make sure to ping @gl-static-site-editor in a comment for a review and merge. For example changes to .gitlab-ci.yml, JavaScript/CSS/Ruby code or the layout files. (this requirement has been removed pending identification of a new DRI for the handbook)
Edited by John Hope

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