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Release 14.5 Planning Issue

Internal Milestone Review & Discussion 🚀

Milestone: 2021-10-18 to 2021-11-17

Themes:

  1. Security, bugs, and reliability updates
  2. Manual approve/deny deployment jobs in Environments page MVC

Plan Board

Schedule Board

Build Board

Capacity 📦

Last 3 Milestones:

Average deliverables (with weight):

Deliverables 🦊

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

Top priority deliverables:

~"Release::P1"

Issue Weight Note
security 2 security Blocks gitlab-org/gitlab#334986 (closed)
Delete stopped environments automatically 2 environments resiliency release post itemsecondary
Add a ratelimit package and implement source IP limiting Carryover from 14.4. Release post release post itemsecondary
Enable rate limit per source IP without dropping requests

~"Release::P2"

Issue Weight Note
Make release scheduling more resilient 2 Carryover from 14.4 security
Wrong date for deployment 4 Carryover from 14.4 ~bug
Unable to download Evidence collection 1 Carryover from 14.4 ~bug
Release asset link not generated 1 Carryover from 14.4. ~bug
Improve default sorting for Environment Page 1 Carryover from 14.4 Category:Environment Management FE
Augment deployment count instrumentation 2 Carryover from 14.4 instrumentation
Allow guests to see tag names associated with releases 2 Carryover from 14.4
Add a new SLI for the internal API to the pages service 1 Carryover from 14.4
Approval UI - Environments Page MVC release post itemprimary Feedback issue

~"Release::P3"

Issue Weight Note
Remove index_for_resource_group from ci_builds 1

Total weight: XX #86 (closed)

Research 🕵

Needs Weight Issue:

Design 🌀

Issue Weight Note
UI for Group Level Permissions for Protected Environments 1 Completes a series of feature-change-lock work ~"technical debt" - Might spillover from 14.4
Solution Validation - Environments Page 2 Finish and analyze usability testing results. Done!
Create/Edit Release: make sure (optional) is applied to forms correctly 1 UX debt, Ready for development
Make deployment & status information easier to read on environments page 3 A bunch of design iteration and breakdown spilled over from 14.4
Delete stopped environments automatically 1 Issue in workflowready for development needs additional design, will address early in milestone
Show manual deploy jobs on deployments page and let users run them 3 Spillover from 14.4
Add dynamically populated Group Environments Page 5
Implement show more capability in feature flag lists 1 UX debt
The job name is not readable from the CI environment deployments list 1 UI polish
🚗 'Deploy to' label on environment is not necessarily right 1 Unable to meet capacity, parked for 14.5 | UI polish
🚗 Setup automatic update of GitLab-UI package in Playground 3 Unable to meet capacity, parked for 14.5 | Pajamas ~tooling
🚗 Release Group JTBDs Review 2 Unable to meet capacity, parked for 14.5 | Jobs to be Done (JTBD) • Follow up to !90995, category focus to be defined • See [1] [2] [3] [4]

∅ Not Started | 🧊 Blocked | 🚗 Parked or Deferred | 🔄 In Progress | 🏓 In feedback or review | ✅ Done

Total weight: 18

Ongoing Design Work

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Focus Areas Notes Percent Weight
Release Design 🌀 Milestone work: tactical design, research, implementation support 70% 14
UX OKRs & Personal Growth Career development, Pajamas contributions, coffee chats, sync and async cross-functional engagements 20% 4
Release UX Strategy Mapping & defining long term vision for Release group 10% 2

Design Radar

Design issues that should be considered for the next milestones. Includes issues that map to strategic SUS and UX Debt labels, that need to be worked on recurrently.

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Issue Estimated Weights Note
UX Scorecard - Release: FY22-Q3-Q4 - Environment Management Viable ?
Share production environments across projects (Epic) ?
Make it more obvious that a request to deploy an environment has been requested successfully SUSFY22 Q2 - Incomplete issue, needs to be prioritized for FE

OKR Alignment 🎯

Planning Tasks

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