Pipeline Authoring 15.6 Planning issue

This issue is closed as of 2022-10-20

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:

• Continued work from %15.5 carryover issues
• Improving our secrets management integration by moving the JWT OIDC token (V2) from Alpha to GA
  • Backend: Opt-in OIDC JSON Web Token (JWT) (gitlab-org/gitlab#356986 - closed)
  • Frontend: Limit JWT token from all jobs in the ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#360657 - closed)
• Variables improvements work to 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 👍
• Improving our error budget Backend: Add better logging to config_compose a... (gitlab-org/gitlab#367899 - closed)

Current/Upcoming Security issues:

• Current Security Issues Open
• Upcoming Security Issues Due

Additional comments

Scope of Work for Engineering

List of issues in priority order go in this table Use ✅ for Frontend and/or Backend if there is work for that team -->

Priority	Issue	Category	Notes	Frontend	Backend	Weight
0	Backend: Follow-up: Unified RetryJob Service - ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#353384)		%15.5 Carry-over		✅
0	Frontend: Surface the used custom variables for... (gitlab-org/gitlab#361237 - closed)		%15.5 Carry-over	✅
0	Backend: Support variables in rules:exists (gitlab-org/gitlab#283881 - closed)		%15.5 Carry-over		✅
0	Frontend: Make it possible to set variables as ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#217309 - closed)		%15.5 Carry-over	✅
0	Backend: Opt-in OIDC JSON Web Token (JWT) (gitlab-org/gitlab#356986 - closed)		%15.5 Carry-over		✅
0	Backend: Race condition when enqueuing builds t... (gitlab-org/gitlab#30360 - closed)		%15.5 Carry-over		✅
0	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/373279+		%15.5 Carry-over		✅
0	Frontend: Limit JWT token from all jobs in the ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#360657 - closed)		%15.5 Carry-over - Blocked by Backend: Opt-in OIDC JSON Web Token (JWT) (gitlab-org/gitlab#356986 - closed)	✅
1	Backend: Add better logging to config_compose a... (gitlab-org/gitlab#367899 - closed)	Category:Error Budgets bugperformance	Blocks gitlab-org/gitlab#349968 (closed)		✅
2	Backend: Disable expansion of file type variabl... (gitlab-org/gitlab#29407 - closed) Being handled by grouprunner in %15.5	typebug	blocked by gitlab-org/gitlab-runner#29128 (closed)
3	Frontend: Add path or untracked to the .gitlab-... (gitlab-org/gitlab#365839 - closed)	typemaintenance		✅		2
4	Frontend: Editor shows an empty state when CI c... (gitlab-org/gitlab#364030 - closed)	typefeature		✅		2
5	Frontend: Unmasked variables value appears as m... (gitlab-org/gitlab#376151 - closed)	typemaintenance		✅
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Scope of Work for Testing

Issue	Investigates/Tests	Due on

Scope of Work for UX

Issue	Category	Status
gitlab-org/gitlab#371008 (closed)

Active UX Research Efforts

• Effort number 1
• Effort number 2

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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