Pipeline Authoring 17.7 Planning issue

Pipeline Authoring Issue Boards

• Pipeline Authoring workflow board
• Pipeline Authoring needs weight board

Goals for the milestone:

• Eliminate user friction while editing and authoring pipelines
  • CI Steps Minimal Maturity Epic - gitlab-org&15084 (closed)
• Developer Security Workflows
  • Spike for gitlab-org&15519
  • Vulnerability - gitlab-org/gitlab#480901 (closed)
  • Vulnerability - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/496762
  • Add an option to select different branch in the... (gitlab-org/gitlab#482676 - closed)
    • Unblocks https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/467286/ - Vulnerability
• Improve user CSAT with Pipeline Performance
  • Deliver Variable Pipeline Creation Performance Improvements gitlab-org&14348
  • Backend: BE: Add mutation for creating pipeline (gitlab-org/gitlab#479122 - closed)
  • Frontend: FE: Update mutation for creating a pipeline (gitlab-org/gitlab#479123 - closed)
  • Backend: Backend: Implement PipelineCreations::Request i... (gitlab-org/gitlab#488392 - closed)
  • Infradev: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/450674+

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
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Prioritization

Additional comments

Scope of Work for Engineering

1. Issues Deliverable
   1. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues/?sort=popularity&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=group%3A%3Apipeline%20authoring&label_name%5B%5D=Deliverable&milestone_title=17.7&first_page_size=100

Scope of Work for Testing

Issue	Investigates/Tests	Due on

Scope of Work for UX

• Total weight: 🔴 4 / 2.5 (Limit 2.5 due to PTO)

Issue	Category	Weight
gitlab-org/gitlab#498476	Carryover, refining the scope	3
Add instructions in the pipeline editor for con... (gitlab-org/gitlab#501001 - closed)	CSAT improvement	1

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/pipeline-authoring/-/work_items/179+

Active UX Research Efforts

N/A

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