Pipeline Authoring 15.4 Planning issue

Pipeline Authoring Issue Boards

• Pipeline Authoring workflow board
• Pipeline Authoring needs weight board

This issue is closed as of 2022-08-17

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:

• Carry overs from the previous milestone
  • Improving our secrets management integration by moving the JWT OIDC token (V2) from Alpha to GA more information in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9wne9jpIOw&list=PL05JrBw4t0Ko6gd2CYH__vOFTcIZiYynZ&index=16
  • Variables improvements work foundation as part of gitlab-org&8209 and gitlab-org&1994 (closed)
    • The work should allow us to implement some of the top requested features that we have with variables today such as
      • Set a predefined list of values for CI environm... (gitlab-org/gitlab#29159 - closed) ~170 👍
      • Specify variables when retrying a manual job (gitlab-org/gitlab#37268 - closed) ~115 👍
      • Cannot use $ character in build variables (gitlab-org/gitlab#17069 - closed) ~140 👍

Additional comments

Scope of Work for Engineering

Priority	Issue	Category	Notes	Frontend	Backend	Weight
1	Frontend: Limit JWT token from all jobs in the ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#360657 - closed)	typefeature		✅		2
2	Frontend: Set a predefined list of values for C... (gitlab-org/gitlab#363660 - closed)	typefeature		✅		3
3	Frontend: Surface the used custom variables for... (gitlab-org/gitlab#361237 - closed)	typefeature		✅		3
4	Backend: Add application limits to projects and... (gitlab-org/gitlab#362228 - closed)	typemaintenance			✅	2
5	SPIKE: Allow special characters to be mask when... (gitlab-org/gitlab#352657 - closed)	typefeature			✅	3
6	Frontend: Make it possible to set variables as ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#217309 - closed)	typefeature		✅		2
7	Frontend: Track the usage of the pipeline simul... (gitlab-org/gitlab#369589 - closed)	typemaintenance		✅		2
8	Backend: Investigate the root cause and fix Int... (gitlab-org/gitlab#365382 - closed)	spike			✅
9	Backend: Make it possible to set a raw variable... (gitlab-org/gitlab#353991 - closed)	typefeature	Carry over from %15.3		✅	3
10	Frontend: Migrate CI/CD Settings > Variables fr... (gitlab-org/gitlab#364375 - closed)	typefeature	Carry over from %15.3 - will unblock gitlab-org/gitlab#217309 (closed) and gitlab-org/gitlab#298814 (closed) shortly into %15.4	✅		3
11	Backend: Make it possible to identify a new/emp... (gitlab-org/gitlab#15170 - closed)	typefeature			✅

Scope of Work for Testing

Issue	Investigates/Tests	Due on

Scope of Work for UX

Issue	Status	Comments	Weight
Design: Beautifying UI	⏳ In progress		8
Design: Show information about Runner set-up during CI/CD onboarding	⏳ In progress		3
Design: Display job variables	⏳ In progress		3
Fail a pipeline job when defined secrets do not... (gitlab-org/gitlab#353080 - closed)	⏳ In progress		3

Active UX Research Efforts

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

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