Pipeline Authoring 14.6 Planning issue

Pipeline Authoring Issue Boards

• Pipeline Authoring workflow board

Goals for the milestone:

• Product group OKR contribution
  • Implement the Triggering and retrying jobs and pipelines epic
  • Contribute to FY22-Q4 KRs GitLab.com SMAU OKR
  • Bug fixes
  • Contribute to FY22-Q4 KRs Quality OKR
  • Deliver 25% of UX debt and S1/S2 scorecard recommendations
    • Periscope UX Debt issue tracking dashboard

Additional comments

• 🚨 Iteration cadence feedback
• Iteration - 11/5-11/28
• ♻ Iteration Retro
• Reduced HC on the backend team in light of the Engineering Allocation

Scope of Work for Engineering

Priority	Issue	Category	Notes	Frontend	Backend	Weight
1	Limit trigger pipeline to 25k	Application Limits typefeature	workflowproduction Technical Writing Worked on already in 14.5		✅	2
2	Frontend spike - investigate auto-complete issues	spike		✅		N/A
3	Alias the needs in the pipeline graph	Carry over from 14.5	UX Technical Writing	✅		3
4	Create bridge/trigger job show page	typefeature OKR	UX Technical Writing Related to #343256 workflowin review	✅	✅	3
5	Create bridge retry logic to initiate a new downstream pipeline	typefeature OKR	Related to #343256		✅	3
6	Original variables when running a manual job are not reused on job retry	OKR typebug	workflowproduction		✅	2
7	backend - Fix 500 error for - Pipeline Editor freezes when using include: rules: - if:	typebug OKR	workflowproduction		✅	2
8	Set Custom SLIs for Web and API endpoints on Pipeline Authoring	OKR FY22Q4	workflowproduction		✅
9	Fix mini pipeline graph accessibility issues	OKR UX debt	workflowproduction	✅

Scope of Work for Engineering - Filler / push for future iteration

Priority	Issue	Category	Notes	Frontend	Backend	Weight
1	gitlab-ci: cannot specify job:when and rules:	typefeature	workflowin review		✅	2
2	Pipelines - .* misbehaves when pattern matching against a variable	typebug	workflowin dev candidate14.6		✅	3
3	Pipeline Editor expanded tooltip opens at the wrong place on the screen	frontend typebug	UX	✅		1
4	Make edit pipeline editor the default button when opening .gitlab-ci.yml	typefeature	candidate14.6UX	✅		1

Scope of Work for Testing

Issue	Investigates/Tests	Due on

Scope of Work for UX

Last updated: 17-12-2021

Issue	Status	Comments
Solution Validation: Pipeline Editor usability testing	✅ Research completed
Solution Validation for pipeline simulation MVC	⏳ Usability test in progress. Insights to be ready by Dec 21
Create an illustration for the trigger job page	✅ Completed.
OKR FY22-Q4 UX KR: Increase # of SUS Impacted Issues created from 93 to 100 per month (CI/CD UX Issue)	✅ Went through the issues backlog and assigned missing labels.
OKR FY22-Q4 KR: UX Scorecard for Pipeline Authoring	✅ Completed.
OKR UX Scorecard Rec Add description keyword to jobs	✅ Proposal refined and issue surfaced for prioritization and planning breakdown.
OKR UX Debt Improve error message in the pipeline editor	✅ Proposal refined and issue surfaced for prioritization and planning breakdown.
Facilitate recruiting for the CI/CD templates solution validation	✅ Recruiting in progress.
Migrate the Drawer component to Figma	✅ Completed.
Pajamas: Drawers	⌛ Audit in progress.	We're looking at using the drawer component for the file tree section in the pipeline editor. I need to look into the drawer usage guidelines to ensure we're not introducing more inconsistencies and UX debt.

Next up:

• Plan problem validation on downstream pipeline (parent child and multi project pipeline)

Active UX Research Efforts

• Solution Validation: Pipeline Editor usability testing

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