Custom Models Planning 18.7

Milestone planning for the Custom Models Group

• Milestone planning for the Custom Models Group
  • Milestone Information
  • 🎯 Milestone Summary
    • Key Themes
    • ⭐ Priority Projects
    • DRI Assignments
    • 🐛 Priority Bugs
  • Team Capacity
    • Planned Time Off
    • Quality Capacity Allocation
  • Milestone Deliverables
    • ~Deliverable Issues
    • ~Stretch Issues
    • ~"type::bug" Issues
    • ~"support::request-for-help" Issues
  • Planning and Build Boards
  • Milestone Checklist
    • Engineering Manager
    • Product Manager
    • Stable Counterparts

Milestone Information

• Milestone:
• Start date:
• End date:
• Duration:

🎯 Milestone Summary

Key Themes

Category	Theme

⭐ Priority Projects

Priority	Epic / Issue	Teams	Goal for the milestone	Staffing	Status
priority1
priority2
priority3

DRI Assignments

Epic / Issue	DRI	Backup DRI	Status	Comments

🐛 Priority Bugs

Issue	Severity	Priority	DRI	Status	Notes

Team Capacity

Planned Time Off

Note: Estimated Weight Capacity is (Working days in milestone - Total days off) / 2, rounded down.

Working days in milestone = 20

Team Member	Role	Total Days Off*	Estimated Weight Capacity
Product Manager
			n/a
Engineering Manager
@aying-gl	Engineering Manager	1	n/a
Engineers
@mhamda	Senior Backend Engineer	0	10
@cindy-halim	Fullstack Engineer	1	9
@julie_huang	Frontend Engineer	0	10
Note: Total Days Off includes all types of leave (e.g., vacation, public holidays, family & friends time, conferences, personal time, etc.)

Quality Capacity Allocation

• Capacity for support:
• Capacity for bugs:
• Capacity for maintenance:

Milestone Deliverables

Deliverable Issues

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fields: title, epic, weight, assignee
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label="group::custom models" AND label="Deliverable" AND milestone="18.7" AND group="gitlab-org"

Stretch Issues

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fields: title, epic, weight, assignee
limit: 100
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label="group::custom models" AND label="Stretch" AND milestone="18.7" AND group="gitlab-org"

typebug Issues

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fields: title, epic, status, weight, assignee
limit: 100
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label="group::custom models" AND label="type::bug" AND milestone="18.7" and group="gitlab-org"

~"support::request-for-help" Issues

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fields: title, labels, status, weight, assignee
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label="group::custom models" AND label="support::request-for-help" AND milestone="18.7" AND group="gitlab-com"

Planning and Build Boards

• Planning Board
• Build Board
• Next 1-3 Milestones
• Next 4-6 Milestones

Milestone Checklist

Engineering Manager

• Get team capacities and post them by the 10th of the month
• Add proposed prioritized list of type::maintenance issues to the planning board
• Obtain weights for all proposed issues
• Collaborate with product manager to finalize the plan
• Assign Deliverable and Stretch labels to milestone issues
• Confirm DRIs and backup DRIs for all priority projects
• Identify items for release post highlights

Product Manager

• Define key themes for the milestone
• Add prioritized list of type::feature issues to the planning board
• Request weights from engineering where necessary
• Collaborate with engineering to finalize the plan
• Identify items for release post highlights
• Update the Direction page
• Sign off on final plan for the milestone
• Close the planning issue

Stable Counterparts

• Technical Writing: Confirm feature documentation with the Product or Engineering Manager.
• Quality: Review testing requirements
• UX: Confirm design support availability

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