Package milestone 13.4 review and discussion

tldr; We will work on tag cleanup policies, zero-downtime garbage collection, the Dependency Proxy, and UX/UI improvements

Milestone %13.4 review & discussion 🚀

• August 22nd --> September 22nd 2020
• Milestone board
• Schedule board
• Functional breakdown

Dates 🗓

• August 13th: Milestone planning due
• August 17th: GitLab Kickoff Call
• August 22nd: Milestone officially starts
• September 18th: Feature freeze
• September 22nd: Milestone ends

Holidays 🌴

Please order by From date

Person	From	To
João	August 24	September 4
Nico	August 21	August 28
John	August 31	September 3
John	September 8	September 11
John	September 14	September 18

Capacity 📦

CI/CD Department metrics

Past 3 milestone commitments 🕰

• 13.3 9 Deliverable issues with a total weight of 20 and an average weight of 2.22
• 13.2 14 Deliverable issues with a total weight of 28 and an average weight of 2.00
• 13.1: 12 Deliverable issues with a total weight of 25 and an average weight of 2.08

Past 3 milestone MRs 🕐

• Average MRs completed:
• Average MRs per Engineer:

Bugs 🐛

(Board)

• Container Registry tag expiration policy doesn't remove images
• Cleanup policy for tags does not remove nested image tags
• Missing Conan metadatum in package details presenter
• Conan returns package data for the most recently created version of the package, rather than the version of the package which was requested.

Deliverables 🦊

• Allow Admin to run garbage collection with zero downtime
  • Ensure the registry remains consistent when toggling the database feature flag
  • Provide flag to import metadata about dangling blobs
  • Provide flag to import metadata about dangling manifests
  • Wrap each repository in its own transaction during a metadata import
  • Make the metadata import process retryable and idempotent

• Throttling for Cleanup policy for tags

• Remote and virtual registries
  • direction Flag npm packages in which the author email or name have recently changed
• Package: Track, report and measure adoption and behavior data
  • Measure user-level adoption of the Package Registry
• Storage and limits management for Package
  • Add configurable file size limits to the NuGet package repository
  • direction Delete packages from your Group-level Package Registry view
• Package Registry UI Polish Epic
  • direction Package Detail View - Update the order of the Header Metadata to improve readability
  • Package registry: swap custom css for gitlab-ui utility classes
  • Create shared components for Package and Container registry

Security issues 🔒

(Board)

Package P2 issues 🐈

• Allow Admin to run garbage collection with zero downtime infra/delivery/-/issues/1058)
  • Compare the outcome of all API test case scenarios with and without the metadata database
  • Discussion/review of the database schema and migrations
  • Container Registry database migrations and deployment strategy
  • direction Use the Dependency Proxy with private GitLab projects

Design work 🌳

• Design Cleanup policies for packages
• Design: Simplify the Other versions tab of the Package Registry

Validation track 🔍

• Understand which features of the container registry may be deprecated

Documentation ✍

• Docs: Fix Vale issues with the Container Registry topic

Kick-off video 🎥

• [n/a]

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Cross-team(group) work (document process)

Themes + Goals (goals must-have metrics)

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