Product Planning Team - October GitLab Hackathon 2025 🚀🛠️🏆

Welcome to the October 2025 GitLab Hackathon 🎉

The Product Planning team is excited to participate in this hackathon! We've prepared a curated list of issues and resources to help you contribute effectively to our product planning initiatives.

What we've prepared for you:

• Curated issue list - Carefully selected issues accessible for different skill levels and backgrounds
  • weight - indicates complexity (higher number = more complex)
  • Use labels groupproduct planning, Community contribution, backend and frontend to find relevant issues.
• Office hours - We'll host sessions to present issues and answer questions
• Priority support - Fast-tracked MR reviews and dedicated Q&A support during the hackathon

Who to contact for reviews and questions

Category/stack	Primary reviewers	Secondary/maintainer reviewers
backend	@vjain @peanutandlevi @daniyalAD	@nicolasdular @mdangelo6
frontend	@vjain-gl @ramistry	@anastasia.khom @jachapman

Issues available for contribution

Issues without an assignee are ready to be picked up! Comment on any unassigned issue and assign it to yourself when you're ready to contribute. For any assistance, feel free to tag me(@vjain-gl).

Unassigned issues

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group = "gitlab-org" and label = "Seeking community contributions" and label = "group::product planning" and state = opened and assignee = none

Assigned issues

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title: Assigned Issues
fields: title, labels("community-bonus::*"), labels("workflow::*", "backend", "frontend", "quick win", "Community contribution", "type::*"), author, weight, assignees
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group = "gitlab-org" and label = "Community contribution" and label = "group::product planning" and state = opened and assignee = any and milestone = %"18.5" 

Completed contributions

Closed issues

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group = "gitlab-org" and label = "Community contribution" and label = "group::product planning" and state = closed and milestone in (%18.5)

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Merge Request tracking

Community contribution MRs

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title: 18.5 milestone MRs 🎉
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type = MergeRequest and group = "gitlab-org" and label = "Community contribution" and label = "group::product planning" and milestone = %"18.5" 

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title: 18.6 milestone MRs 🎉
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type = MergeRequest and group = "gitlab-org" and label = "Community contribution" and label = "group::product planning" and milestone = %"18.6"