Release Weekly Update - 2022-09-06

Weekly summary of the top priorities for the Release team.

Milestone Deliverables

Deliverable	% Complete	% In-progress	% Unstarted
🟢 15.4 Milestone	25%	66%	8%

Product focus

Insights

Epics we are working on

• Support multiple deployment approval rules (gitlab-org&8533)
• Environment Search (gitlab-org&8467)
• Create annotated tags when creating a Release (gitlab-org&8430 - closed)
• Resolve Environment Serializer's complexity and... (gitlab-org&8433 - closed)

Key feature status

Feature	Category	Status
"Skip outdated deployment jobs" should evaluate... (gitlab-org/gitlab#363328 - closed)	customer	workflowin review
Create API endpoint to update a Protected Envir... (gitlab-org/gitlab#351854 - closed)	direction Category:Environment Management
Show tags related to deployed commit on Environ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#15419 - closed)	SUSImpacting customer	workflowin review
Show more specific error message when user atte... (gitlab-org/gitlab#334940 - closed)	SUSImpacting	workflowin review
Show approval comment after deployment is approved (gitlab-org/gitlab#370423 - closed)	customer Category:Environment Management
Publish Releases without giving access to sourc... (gitlab-org/gitlab#216485 - closed)	direction	workflowready for development
Search for environment name in the Environments... (gitlab-org/gitlab#10754 - closed)	direction	workflowin dev
Static environments in MRs should not be stoppe... (gitlab-org/gitlab#299412 - closed)	customer	workflowin dev
Inconsistent behaviour with environment widgets... (gitlab-org/gitlab#346666)	customer	Reprioritized (Next 1-3 Milestones)
Resource group timeout (gitlab-org/gitlab#349336 - closed)	customer	workflowin dev
Show tags related to deployed commit on Environ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#370400)	customer	workflowready for development

: Reliability health check

• 🟢 Infradev - count: 0, past due: 0
• 🟢 Security (past SLO) - count S1/S2: 0, count S3: 0
• 🟡 Regressions count: 1
• 🟢 Corrective Action count: 0
• 🟢 Error budget Remaining 16 min ( from 17 min).

Notes:

OKRs

• FY23-Q3 OKRs for Release team - 21% complete

OKRs in progress:

• We're working on adding more maintainers to the team
• One Frontend engineer successfully onboarded to the team
• We're continuing to interview candidates for the BE position

Team

• @andrei.zubov has joined us as a Senior Frontend Engineer! Feel free to schedule coffee-chats with him!
• We had a great discussion on creating deployment detail page( @cbalane can you add the recording and our follow-ups? )
• @cbalane @wleidheiser and @emilybauman had a very insightful follow-up session with the customer after our recent SUS survey.

assigned to @vshushlin

@nicolewilliams @cbalane here's the draft for the weekly update, can you take a look add some things?

(Particularly to the Team section)

Thank you @vshushlin! I made one small update. @cbalane is out this week, but I'm sure he'll add the recording link when he returns.

assigned to @nicolewilliams and @cbalane

marked this issue as related to #172 (closed)

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@andrei.zubov has joined us as a Senior Frontend Engineer! Feel free to schedule coffee-chats with him!

Welcome to GitLab @andrei.zubov!

Thanks @sgoldstein ! I am happy to be here

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