Pipeline Authoring 17.11 Planning issue

Milestone dates

• Milestone starts (Friday before the 3rd Thursday): 2025-02-14
• Code cut-off: (Friday before the 3rd Thursday): 2025-03-14
• Milestone ends (3rd Thursday of the month): 2025-03-20

Direction and direction changes

Continue with Restrict use of pipeline variables by default (gitlab-org&16522 - closed) and Add support for spec:inputs in GitLab CI pipelines (gitlab-org&16321 - closed) besides urgent bugfixes and maintenance work.

If you have available bandwidth, you are welcome to share feedback and questions on the issues in Inputs Enhancements (gitlab-org&10603) and PA labeled priority2 issues in FY26 World class experience - Foundational Qual... (gitlab-org&16729 - closed). We'll likely continue with these in Q2.

Goal

1. Due or urgent bugs
2. Restrict use of pipeline variables by default (gitlab-org&16522 - closed)
3. Add support for spec:inputs in GitLab CI pipelines (gitlab-org&16321 - closed)

Due bugs

Upcoming PTO in milestone

Verify:Pipeline Authoring Google Calendar

UX Plan

Keep supporting the team goals ☝️ and below:

Issue	Weight	Note
CI Step naming discussion	1
CI Step internal validation - compliance	?	Unknown due to the recent change
CI Step internal validation - Jenkins migration	?	Unknown due to the recent change
✂️ UX Paper Cuts 17.11 → Verify (gitlab-org/gitlab#512693 - closed)	3	Supporting UX Paper Cuts team for 17.11 Verify milestone: Help UX reviews, co-designing on the larger themes
Differentiate inputs params with inputs spec in... (gitlab-org/gitlab#523018 - closed)	2

Tracking

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