🌟 New Epic Experience - Feedback issue
Welcome to the new epic experience!
The purpose of this feedback issue is to collect feedback from customers and internal team members. Our goals are to identify and prioritize bugs and issues, capture ideas for new features and improvements, and ultimately enhance user satisfaction and product quality. Your input is crucial in helping us understand and address the needs of our users, ensuring that our product continues to evolve and improve.
New epic features
- Epic detail page: The new Epic detail page has a fresh look while maintaining the familiarity of the existing design. We've reduced the scrolling burden with a 'read more' feature for long descriptions and reorganized the right sidebar for better usability. This ensures that all essential information is easily accessible, enhancing your overall user experience.
- Epic dates: Dates are now managed with a single widget featuring a toggle to choose ‘fixed’ or ‘inherited’ dates, and a start and end date picker, simplifying date management and helping you stay on top of project timelines.
- Health Status: Health status is a new feature at the epic level. You can set and update the health status to 'On track,' 'Needs attention,' or 'At risk.' This provides quick insight into the project's progress, helping you communicate and manage potential issues proactively.
- Customizable Color Options: Color options have been expanded. You can now choose from a larger set of pre-existing values or add custom RGB or hex value. This helps in categorizing and prioritizing tasks visually. Color is a flexible tool to categorize epics. Use cases include creating associations to squads, company initiatives, or levels in the epic hierarchy. Epic color can be viewed on the Roadmap and Epic Boards.
- Parent Epics & Ancestry: The new Parent feature allows you to add a parent directly from the epic, just like adding a parent epic from an issue. Ancestry has been moved to the top in a breadcrumb-like manner, displaying the immediate and ultimate parents. This makes it easier to navigate and understand the hierarchy of your epics.
- Time Tracking: Time tracking is now available at the epic level. You can log time spent on different parts of the project, ensuring accurate time management. For instance, if a feature is estimated to take 10 weeks, you can log time for each sprint and monitor progress, helping you stay on schedule and within budget.
- Child Items Widget: The Child Items widget has been expanded to display epics, issues, and tasks. We’ve released a new progress icon alongside the health status and weight roll-up values, giving you a quick view of the project's status.
- View on Roadmap: We've replaced the embedded roadmap tab with a 'View on Roadmap' option in the more actions menu. This takes you to the full roadmap page with all its settings and sorting options, filtered by the selected epic. This change offers a more detailed and customizable view of your project's roadmap.
- Linking Different Types of Records: You can now link dependencies between different types of records, such as tasks, issues, and epics. This creates a connected view, enhancing traceability and providing a comprehensive overview of related work items. This helps ensure that all related tasks are managed together, improving overall project coherence.
- Webhooks for Epics: Users can automate and streamline their workflows by sending real-time updates from GitLab to their preferred tools and services whenever changes occur in epics, enhancing efficiency and collaboration.
New features coming soon!
- Assignees
- Templates
- Design management
- Project level epics
- Move
- Clone
- Import/Export
- Create new linked item
- Resolve threaded comments
- Epic milestones
🎗 How to give feedback
- Check Existing Feedback: Before submitting, check if your feedback is already captured by someone else. If so, comment on the existing thread or leave an emoji reaction to show support.
- Start a New Thread: If your feedback is not listed, start a new thread with a descriptive title. Include relevant details, screenshots, and steps to reproduce the issue in expandable sections.
- Be Specific: Provide as much detail as possible, including device/browser information, steps to reproduce, and expected vs. actual outcomes.
🤝🏾 What you can expect from us
- We will read all of your feedback.
- We may not respond to all feedback directly.
- We will create issues for repeatable bugs and assign a priority based on severity.
📖 Reference links
- Test a new look for epics
- Work Items
- New epic experience blog post
- TRIAGE: Epics-GA Bugs (&14323)
- GA Required: Epics-GA Bugs (&14324)
⚠ Known issues & feature gaps
To ensure a swift and organized process, we are associating all newly identified bugs with &14323. Once confirmed, the issue receives a priority and severity and is moved to &14324 for assignment. This process is managed by @amandarueda
, @kushalpandya
and @donaldcook
.
- Child hierarchy widget summary roll-ups
- Cannot reparent descendant subepics within the child hierarchy widget
- tbd
- tbd
Edited by Amanda Rueda