Early access program - Global availability (GA)
What is Early access program?
Early access program is a dynamic initiative designed to bring together a diverse community of users and gather valuable insights on upcoming features. Our goals revolve around fostering collaboration, expanding our contributor base, and ensuring that GitLab continues to evolve with the input of users from various backgrounds.
In short and objective words:
Our goal is to create convenient central place to participate in testing/trying Beta/Experimental features by accepting single testing terms and some optional marketing/tracking agreement.
References
- Handbook: alignment & vision.
- Legal discussion
- Last POC MR. (there is video with some kind of sketch)
Just for historical reference: previous GA issue for GitLab Beta program. It's too much different what we need to create now.
Plan
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Change/Remove landing page. (current demo) -
Borrow designer (issue) -
Legal terms for opt-in (issue) -
UX - user stories. Approve concept. -
UI prepare. -
Write any needed Handbook/Docs pages. -
Engineering work. -
Migrate feature to program documentation (from feature flag conditionals to program conditionals). -
Help to migrate as much Experimental/Beta features to the program as possible. -
Launch blogpost. -
Define awards & awarding process for participants.
TODO after launch:
// to be added..
Edited by Rostyslav Safonov