Release 15.7 Planning Issue

Internal Milestone Review & Discussion 🚀

Milestone: 2022-11-18 to 2022-12-17

Theme:

• Migrate to Multiple Approval rules support in Deploy Approval Configuration
• API enhancements
• Maintenance work

Plan Board

Build Board

Capacity 📦

Team Metrics Dashboard Team Say/Do Ratio Dashboard

Average deliverables (with weight):

Deliverables 🦊

This includes all planned issues, including User Experience, Bugs, Security, Technical Debt, UX debt, Usability etc.

Top priority deliverables:

ReleaseP1

Issue	Weight	Note
gitlab-org/gitlab#377802 (closed)	1	security backend
Support editing of deployment approval rules in... (gitlab-org/gitlab#378445)	2	release post item direction typefeature frontend
Support editing of deployment executor rules in... (gitlab-org/gitlab#378446)	2	release post item direction typefeature frontend
Alert users that they can still make unified ap... (gitlab-org/gitlab#378447)	1	release post item direction typefeature frontend
GraphQL query for fetching environment/deployme... (gitlab-org/gitlab#371953 - closed)	3	typefeature backend
Support `finished_after` filter in Deployment API (gitlab-org/gitlab#332652 - closed)	1	typefeature backend customer
Convert Environment Details page from HAML to V... (gitlab-org/gitlab#23036 - closed)	2	typemaintenance frontend
Data integrity issue on `protected_environment_... (gitlab-org/gitlab#330483)	4	typemaintenance backend
On user deletion associate releases author_id t... (gitlab-org/gitlab#367522 - closed)	2	typemaintenance backend
Database queries on Unleash endpoints sometimes... (gitlab-org/gitlab#378863 - closed)	1	typebug bugperformance backend

ReleaseP2

Issue	Weight	Note
Improve Empty State Page for Release (gitlab-org/gitlab#377728)	1	frontend
Allow parent group milestones to be used on rel... (gitlab-org/gitlab#378442)		frontend backend
Download/install GitLab release binary via priv... (gitlab-org/gitlab#375489)	1	typebug customer backend
Investigate if the index_environments_on_name_v... (gitlab-org/gitlab#372533 - closed)	2	typemaintenance backend

ReleaseP3

Issue	Weight	Note
Grand parent group milestones are not displayed... (gitlab-org/gitlab#326897)		frontend
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/372090+	1	typebug backend
Maintain Scroll Position when Environment has b... (gitlab-org/gitlab#375781)		frontend
Show tags on Environments Page for commits pend... (gitlab-org/gitlab#375657)		release post item frontend
Deploy freeze: show informative messages when d... (gitlab-org/gitlab#212460)		release post item frontend backend

Total weight: XX

Technical Research 🕵

Needs Weight Issue:

Design and User Research 🌀

Issue	Weight	Note
Add approval settings "Prevent approval by MR m... (gitlab-org/gitlab#381418 - closed)	2	✅ UX
Allow users to promote a deployment to it's own... (gitlab-org/gitlab#378552)	3	UX
Add dynamically populated organization-level en... (gitlab-org/gitlab#241506)	5	✅ UX Prep for solution validation
Give users more feedback when they have success... (gitlab-org/gitlab#378924)	1	✅ UX Usability benchmark
CMS Scorecard - Release: FY23-Q4 - Environment ... (gitlab-org/gitlab-design#2121 - closed)	3	UX research
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/2205+	2	UX research
New environments search UI (Simplified version ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#375244)	2	✅ Stretch UX
Allow JSON evidence collection files to open up... (gitlab-org/gitlab#378930 - closed)	1	✅ Stretch UX Usability benchmark
Add Environments support to the GitLab Agent (gitlab-org/gitlab#352186)	1	Support groupconfigure with any design feedback

Total weight: XX

Docs ✍

Issue	Weight	Note

Total weight: XX

OKR Alignment 🎯

Planning Tasks

• EM update capacity section
• PM highlights work for Deliverables, User Experience, Bug Fixes, Security Fixes, Technical Debt sections
• UX highlights opportunities for User Experience and Research
• PM describes how this milestone aligns with our team's OKRs
• Team reviews prioritized issues for readiness/feasibility