Manage:Foundations 16.9 Planning

Milestone dates: Jan 13, 2024–Feb 9, 2024

Themes 📋

1. Navigation enhancements
2. Design Tokens
3. S3 / S4 Bugs

Looking ahead - Prioritized themes over the next three milestones

• Design Tokens
• Accessibility issues
• Dark Mode ( maybe )
• Settings - Discovery ( maybe )

Validation Track 🔎

Category:Navigation & Settings

@aregnery and @danmh are going to build upon their investigate work on settings from 16.8 by looking for issues that appear viable and reasonable and breaking down potential work opportunities into different buckets to start scheduling issues in 16.10

• Triage issues in gitlab-org&4410 → See thread
• Triage issues in gitlab-org&4831 → See thread

Build Track 🛠

Category:Navigation & Settings

• Switch avatar from circle to rounded square in ... (gitlab-org/gitlab!142059 - merged) • Austin Regnery • 16.9
• Adjust the logic to escape the navigation overl... (gitlab-org/gitlab#415856 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.11
• Avoid jumping from a collection to pinned (gitlab-org/gitlab#421011 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.9
• 👍 37 Adjust the logic of the breadcrumb area to alig... (gitlab-org/gitlab#358113 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 17.1
• Fix navigation badges alignment (gitlab-org/gitlab#421955 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.9
• Burn down more accessibility issues
  •   Nav eval > adjust chevron contrast (gitlab-org/gitlab#428358 - closed) • James Rushford • 16.10
  •   Nav eval > Prevent truncating sidebar items (gitlab-org/gitlab#428349 - closed) • Bobby Stoynov • 16.11
  •   Nav eval > grab icon insufficient contrast (gitlab-org/gitlab#428348 - closed) • James Rushford • 16.9
  •   Nav eval > Replace reset filter button to accom... (gitlab-org/gitlab#428360 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.10
  •   Nav eval > Improve contrast in shortcut button ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#428369 - closed) • James Rushford • 17.1
  •   Nav eval > Dropdown covers focusable elements (gitlab-org/gitlab#426761 - closed) • Vanessa Otto • 17.4
  •   Nav eval > Reorder pinned via keyboard (gitlab-org/gitlab#426762) • Unassigned • Backlog
  •   Nav eval > Enable filters button (gitlab-org/gitlab#426763 - closed) • Jessie Young • Next 1-3 releases
  •   New navigation dropdown does not read current c... (gitlab-org/gitlab#426360 - closed) • James Rushford • 16.10
  •   New navigation focus not moved to What's new dr... (gitlab-org/gitlab#426361 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.10
• S3/S4 Bugs

Category:Design System

• Breadcrumb > Explore small breakpoint behavior (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1562 - closed) • Austin Regnery • 16.9
• Identify gaps or conflicting logic in Pajamas to improve any aspect related to settings. #320 (comment 1720392988).
  •   feat(Select): Add guidelines for select (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com!3472 - merged) • Austin Regnery • 16.9
  •   feat(RadioButton): Add guidelines to avoid nest... (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com!3705 - merged) • Austin Regnery • 16.9
  •   feat(Breadcrumb): Update behavior guidelines (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com!3699 - merged) • Austin Regnery • 16.9

Milestone PTO

• @jeldergl OOO Jan 16–21, Feb 5–9

cc @gitlab-org/manage/foundations