Do not auto-assign bugs for refinement
What does this MR do and why?
Disable auto-assignment of typebug issues for refinement.
Since Threat Insights started using planning issues, the amount of bugs rolling-over to the next milestone has increased.
@nmccorrison and I discussed reasons for this:
- The issue board is no longer kept prioritized, as we're relying on the planning issue for this.
- The view in the planning issue doesn't allow us to easily differentiate when a bug is assigned to someone who's working on it, or merely waiting for refinement due to the auto-assignment for refinement by the bot.
This MR addresses the second part by putting EMs in charge of tracking progress on the unassigned bugs. As a side-effect, it's expected that this change will highlight any capacity shortages when it comes to addressing bugs.
It's possible that, as a team, we decide to do away with auto-assignment for refinement altogether. For example, issues belonging to an epic with a DRI shouldn't need to be automatically assigned as the DRI is responsible for seeing that work is progressing, and raising any blockers.
Expected impact & dry-runs
These are strongly recommended to assist reviewers and reduce the time to merge your change.
See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/quality/triage-ops/-/tree/master/doc/scheduled#testing-policies-with-a-dry-run on how to perform dry-runs for new policies.
See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/quality/triage-ops/-/blob/master/doc/reactive/best_practices.md#use-the-sandbox-to-test-new-processors on how to make sure a new processor can be tested.
Action items
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If adding environment variables for reactive processors, update config/triage-web.yaml
and.gitlab/ci/triage-web.yml
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(If applicable) Add documentation to the handbook pages for Triage Operations => - (If applicable) Identify the affected groups and how to communicate to them:
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/cc @ person_or_group
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Relevant Slack channels => -
Engineering week-in-review
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