Source Code Group 14.9 Planning (March 22)

Release planning for the Source Code Group

Overview

Event	Date
Release Start Date	2/18/2022
Feature Freeze	3/17/2022
Release Date	3/22/2022
Milestone Workdays	20

Build Boards

• Backend Board
• Frontend Board
• UX board

Goals

1. Exit Engineering Allocation - complete any remaining work
2. FIPS compliance - We want to prioritize getting this done because it is a requirement for FEDRAMP which is a significant opportunity for GitLab as a whole. &6476 (closed)
3. P2 bugs - We've got lots and need to work on triaging and prioritizing the big ones.

Team Capacity

• Total Weight Capacity: TODO
• FE Weight: TODO
• BE Weight: 23

Planning - Planning Board

Product manager prepares the planning with proposed issues for the milestone. Engineering reviews and make recommendations based engineering allocation and capacity.

Checklist

Engineering Managers

• Get Team Capacities and post them in a comment no later than the 10th of the month
  • Backend
  • Frontend
• Obtain weights for proposed issues
• Recommend issues via engineering allocation as applicable
• Assign ~Direction Items for Milestone

Product Manager

• Define Key Themes
• Prepare planning board and submit it for initial capacity assessment and review
• Signs off on final plan