Environments group 16.9 Planning issue

Milestone dates

• Milestone starts (Friday before the 3rd Thursday): 2024-01-12
• Code cut-off: (Friday before the 3rd Thursday): 2024-02-09
• Milestone ends (3rd Thursday of the month): 2024-02-15

Direction and direction changes

No changes to the direction.

Goal

We should focus on deprecations, bugs with SLOs and Kubernetes 1.29 support. All this chore and maintenance work is followed by our product direction work. The latter includes

1. 🐛 🐛 🐛
2. the Kubernetes dashboarding
3. Kubernetes 1.29 investigation
4. Deployment Detail Page MVC - Deploy Approval (gitlab-org/gitlab#374538 - closed)
5. CI tunnel routing timeouts (gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent#386 - closed) - THE bughunt continues
6. GetTreeEntries.Recv returns NotFound (gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent#502 - closed)
7. Support clusters that can't see GitLab (gitlab-org&12180) - not deliverable
8. Export a metric with connected agents versions (gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent#505 - closed)
9. Upgrade base images to Debian 12 (gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent#500 - closed)

Stretch:

1. Deployment Approval Rules in Group-level protec... (gitlab-org/gitlab#362236 - closed)
2. When a job waits for an approval, link to the d... (gitlab-org/gitlab#435464 - closed)

Due bugs

Link to a list of S1-S3 bugs ordered by due date.

Quarterly OKR status

The Roadmap

The roadmap is maintained on the Configure direction pages.

Capacity planning

Update the with planned PTOs here - @nmezzopera

The Board

As with any board in GitLab an issue might appear in multiple columns, we try to avoid this here. As a result originally UX issues might have lost the UX label already, if they are ready for dev work. The Deliverable and Stretch columns are priority ordered. Let's hope/prey that the ordering won't change unexpectedly. If you remove something from Deliverable or Stretch, or move an issue between these, please mention in here in a comment and at least mention @nagyv-gitlab to know about it

Planning board

UX Plan

Issue	Weight	Note
Widgets based GitLab Homepage (gitlab-org&12055 - closed)	design-weight5	UX
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/2829+	design-weight2	UX research
Show the release process related to environments (gitlab-org/gitlab#432671)	design-weight3	UX
Deployment Approval Rules in Group-level protec... (gitlab-org/gitlab#362236 - closed)	design-weight2	UX
Environment Stage - JTBDs (gitlab-org/gitlab#419839 - closed)	design-weight3	Jobs to be Done (JTBD) Multi-Milestone

Actions

Close issue if all these are done:

• [ ] (optional) Ping Product Leader on MVC, Tiering, and New Config Review topics is needed
• once the team is aligned, set workflowready for development on every issue in Deliverable and Stretch
• create the kickoff video with the title GitLab XX.XX Kickoff - Deploy:Environments
• if there is a kickoff issue, check it