Milestone 18.4 review and discussion (Package Stage)
Milestone 18.4 🚀 (Aug 15 - Sep 12)
Goals
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🚀 Advance the Product Roadmap- groupcontainer registry Container image virtual registry
- grouppackage registry Maven virtual registry follow-ups and improvements
- groupcontainer registry Self-Managed Database Deployment and Migration
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⚙️ Improve stability and reliability of our products- groupcontainer registry Database load balancing
- groupcontainer registry Storage driver improvements
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⏩ On-going projects- grouppackage registry Packages table decomp
- grouppackage registry Test improvements
- groupcontainer registry Release process improvements
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🧯 Burn down our bug backlog
🚢 Container registry
Open issues
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group="gitlab-org" and milestone = "18.4" and state = closed and label = ("Category:Container Registry", "Package:P1")
📦 Package registry
Open issues
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group="gitlab-org" and milestone = "18.4" and state = closed and label = ("Category:Package Registry", "Package:P1")Virtual registry
Open issues
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group="gitlab-org" and milestone = "18.4" and state = opened and label = ("Category:Virtual Registry", "Package:P1")Closed issues
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group="gitlab-org" and milestone = "18.4" and state = closed and label = ("Category:Virtual Registry", "Package:P1")Bug Burndown
Open issues
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group="gitlab-org" and milestone = "18.4" and state = opened and label = ("type::bug", "devops::package")Closed issues
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group="gitlab-org" and milestone = "18.4" and state = closed and label = ("type::bug", "devops::package")Stretch
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group="gitlab-org" and milestone = "18.4" and label = ("devops::package", "Package:P2")Product and Design issues
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Holidays 🌴
Please order by From date
| Person | From | To | Coverage Issue (if required) |
|---|---|---|---|
| @hswimelar | 2025-08-18 | 2025-08-27 | https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/engineering-division/pto-coverage/-/issues/258 |
Helpful links
| Helpful links | Use this for |
|---|---|
| Functional breakdown | Viewing issues scheduled for the current and next several milestones. |
| Milestone board | See how the planned issues are broken down by function. |
| Workflow board | See how the milestone issues are broken down by their current status (workflow). |
| List of P1 unweighted issues | A list of issues that are not yet weighted, which is a requirement for P1 issues. |
| Issues that need refining | A list of issues that refinement |
Operational tasks
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PM: Create this issue with the title "Milestone XX.Y review and discussion (Package stage)" -
EM: Assign the issue to PM, EM, and PD -
EM: Set the due date to the end of the milestone -
EM: Update GLQL with the correct milestone -
EM: Write goals, list deliverables, community contribution, and stretch issues that align with the goals -
PM: Review the teams goals for alignment with Product direction -
EM: Change the milestone on carryover issues from the previous milestone plan -
EM: Start a discussion thread with project DRIs to add upcoming issues -
PD: List usability improvement issues -
PM: List research issues -
EM: List issues needing refinement -
EM: Review that all issues listed as deliverables are refined. If there is missing weight, implementation plan, and/or workflowready for development label, then ping the team to perform refine them -
EM: For issues that are refined and labeled as Package:P1, assign Deliverable -
EM: Confirm the list of issues in this issue match with the ones in the filter. -
EM: Confirm there is enough work for golang engineers, rails engineers, and frontend engineers, and capacity is not exceeded. Can use the functional breakdown board to evaluate weights and coordinate with the team to confirm they feel comfortable with the commitments. -
PM: Record the kickoff video, link to this issue, and share it on Slack. -
EM: On the first day of the milestone record the number of issues completed in the previous milestone closed and the number of issues scheduled in the current milestone (deliverable + stretch).
Edited by Crystal Poole