Manage:Foundations 16.11 planning

Themes for this milestone 📋

1. Continue problem validation for Navigation and Settings based on user feedback
2. Groundwork for getting dark mode to GA

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Navigation & Settings 🗺

We are continuing to explore user challenges on Settings pages with a goal of iterating on our guidelines for settings in Pajamas. We are also reviewing recent user feedback on the new navigation to identify potential improvements.

See our direction page for long-term plans.

Validation & Design Track 🔎

• Define: What is a setting (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1772) • Unassigned
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/2928+s
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/2938+s

Build Track 🛠

• Tooling to audit GitLab navigation structure (gitlab-org/gitlab#442753 - closed) • Jeff Tucker • 17.0
• Dropdowns > Leverage shift middleware (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#2462 - closed) • Miguel Rincon • 17.0
  • Stretch goal: navbar dropdown menu is out of screen (gitlab-org/gitlab#424693 - closed) • Miguel Rincon • 17.0

Design system 🎨

We are working towards our goal of delivering a high-quality dark mode in FY25. In this milestone, we're focused on completing our design token pilot to ensure we can scale design token adoption rapidly in Q2. We are also setting some design direction for dark mode to help guide our decisions over the coming months.

See our direction page for our long-term plans.

Validation & Design Track 🔎

• 🔳 Dark mode > Establish design principles (#334 - closed) • Jeremy Elder, Dan MH • 16.11
• 🔳 Dark mode > Color evaluation (#335 - closed) • Jeremy Elder • 16.11
• Design tokens > Token inventory (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#2510 - closed) • Jeremy Elder, Dan MH+ • 16.11
• Design tokens > Governance (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1654) • Dan MH • 17.0
• Design tokens > Token naming (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1602 - closed) • Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt, Jeremy Elder • 17.0
• Design tokens > Token integration (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1605 - closed) • Unassigned • 16.11
• Design tokens > Token organization (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1603 - closed) • Unassigned • 16.11

Build Track 🛠

• Design tokens > Sync design token JSON to Figma... (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#2526 - closed) • Scott de Jonge, Ian Gloude • 17.0
• Add adoption scanner rules for headings (gitlab-org/frontend/pajamas-adoption-scanner#128 - closed) • Mark Florian • 16.11
• Document stance on BootstrapVue (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#2145 - closed) • Sam Beckham • 16.11
• [CSS Utilities TG] Tailwind CSS > Deprecate leg... (gitlab-org&12108 - closed) • Unassigned
  • [CSS utilities TG] Discuss alternative migratio... (gitlab-org/gitlab#443562 - closed) • Lukas Eipert, Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt+ • 16.11
  • Deprecate utility mixins in spacing.scss (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#2399 - closed) • Unassigned • 16.11
• Document instances of incorrect IME behavior (gitlab-org/gitlab#443502 - closed) • Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt • 16.11
• Tooltips and popovers frequently stick (gitlab-org/gitlab#443679) • Unassigned • Backlog

Planned Time Off 🌴

Hey team! 👋 Please add your planned time off below for this release period. Everyone will be focused on the Summit during the week of 2024-03-11, so no need to call that out. However, please ensure you add any additional time you're taking around the Summit.

*Note, you do not need to update this table if you take unplanned time off, this is meant to be a quick snapshot of capacity for those who don't have access to capacity planning.

Team Member	Time Off
@jrushford	2024-03-17 - 2024-03-25, 2024-03-29 - 2024-04-01
@sdejonge	2024-03-18 - 2024-03-28, 2024-04-02 - 2024-04-12
@samdbeckham	2024-03-25 - 2024-07-12
@aregnery	2024-03-27 - 2024-04-03
@chrismicek	2024-03-29 - 2024-04-01
@danmh	2024-03-29 - 2024-04-01
@leipert	2024-03-29 - 2024-04-01
@pgascouvaillancourt	2024-03-29 - 2024-04-01
@thutterer	2024-03-29 - 2024-04-01
@igloude	2024-03-29 - 2024-04-01
@jeldergl	2024-03-29
F&F day	2024-04-05