Data Seeder Feedback

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Summary of What Has Been Accomplished Thus Far

The Demo Data Working Group succeeded in building out a Demo Data Seeder and "Beautiful Data" that can be leveraged to showcase areas of GitLab that are traditionally hard to show off given the mutability of those features (specifically Date-Range-specific Plan capabilities).

Feedback For Next Iterations

The next iteration of the working group ought focus on a few key areas to improve the usability of the Data Seeder.

• Import should render URLs correctly. (example)
• Allow multi-user setup and for ownership to be defined for issues/comments/etc. This will become more important as our "New UI" comes out.
• [V2] => Extend YAML parsing to allow raw ruby o... (#403079)
• Better Documentation that is generated from the spec
• [Future iteration] => Allow seed-wide variables (#403849)
• Remove the need for FactoryBot. I know this is a difficult one, but ultimately, it would be great to be able to incorporate this into customer environments and give them seeded data.
• [Future Iteration] => Implement a button on Git... (#362005 - closed)