Pipeline Authoring 17.2 Planning issue

Pipeline Authoring Issue Boards

• Pipeline Authoring workflow board
• Pipeline Authoring needs weight board

➡ This issue is closed as of 2024-06-16 ⬅

The Single Source of Truth (SSOT) for the status of issues in the milestone is the milestone board where issues are stack ranked by priority.

Goals for the milestone:

CI Catalog

• Introducing Ultimate security workflows through policies and best practices
  • CI Catalog & Components - Secure & Govern workf... (gitlab-org&12713)

Cells support

• S - Docs updates for Downstream (Multi-Project)... (gitlab-org/gitlab#456879 - closed)

Error budget improvements

• CI Lint raises ActiveRecord::ReadOnlyRecord error (gitlab-org/gitlab#428590 - closed)
• Prioritized pipeline creation slowness improvements from Pipeline creation performance improvements (gitlab-org&14102)

Pipeline Mini Graph work Engineering Time

• Frontend: PMG GraphQL - Fetch stage by ID (gitlab-org/gitlab#464100 - closed)
• Frontend: Migrate MR pipelines PMG to `pipeline... (gitlab-org/gitlab#419725)
• Frontend: Mini pipeline graph missing informati... (gitlab-org/gitlab#393672 - closed)

Current/Upcoming Security issues:

• Current Security Issues Open
• Upcoming Security Issues Due

Upcoming PTO in milestone

Verify:Pipeline Authoring Google Calendar

Prioritization Workflow

flowchart LR
 1(Check for current milestone label)
 2(If none, check for current milestone candidate label)
 3(If none, check for next milestone label)
 4(If none, check next milestone candidate label)

subgraph Prioritization
1 --> 2 --> 3 --> 4
end

Prioritization

Additional comments

Scope of Work for Engineering

Priority	Issue	Category	Notes	Frontend	Backend	Weight
1	CI Lint raises ActiveRecord::ReadOnlyRecord error (gitlab-org/gitlab#428590 - closed)	Error Budget Improvement			✅	2
2	Backend: GET /api/:version/projects/:id/ci/lint... (gitlab-org/gitlab#464387)	needs investigation			✅
3	Frontend: Migrate MR pipelines PMG to `pipeline... (gitlab-org/gitlab#419725)	pipeline graphs		✅		2
4	Frontend: PMG GraphQL - Fetch stage by ID (gitlab-org/gitlab#464100 - closed)	pipeline graphs		✅		3
5	[Feature flag] Roll out of `ci_graphql_pipeline... (gitlab-org/gitlab#407818 - closed)	feature flag rollout		✅		3
6	Backend: Add `type` and `description` to InputT... (gitlab-org/gitlab#466669 - closed)				✅	2
7	Removal of Ensure Stage Service (gitlab-org/gitlab#464747 - closed)	Engineering Time			✅
8	Update filtering options in the CI/CD Catalog i... (gitlab-org/gitlab#437643)	Category:Component Catalog		✅
9	Backend: Follow-up - Add the aggregator cron jo... (gitlab-org/gitlab#466232 - closed)	Category:Component Catalog		✅		1
10	Backend: Add ci_component_source_policy JSON sc... (gitlab-org/gitlab#465264 - closed)				✅	3

Scope of Work for Testing

Issue	Investigates/Tests	Due on

Scope of Work for UX

Issue	Category	Weight
UX Scorecard - Verify:Pipeline Authoring FY25-Q2 (gitlab-org/gitlab-design#2578 - closed)	Category:Component Catalog	3
Design: Representing the usage of CI components... (gitlab-org/gitlab#465984)	Category:Component Catalog	2
Surface which CI components are used in the pro... (gitlab-org/gitlab#463574)	Category:Component Catalog	2
Improve experience of adding the description fo... (gitlab-org/gitlab#423733)	Category:Component Catalog	1

• Pipeline Authoring team UI Bug Bash 🔥 (#155 - closed)
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/pipeline-authoring/-/work_items/146+

Active UX Research Efforts

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/2994

Issue Breakdown

As part of cross functional prioritization framework we track the % of issue types and weights in planning to forecast against the team's current needs.

Details
Refer to updated breakdown here

/cc @gitlab-com/pipeline-authoring-group