14.3 planning - NEW - Composition Analysis (August-September)

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Context

Capacity variations

This includes planned OOO, internships, conferences and other initiatives outside of groupcomposition analysis.

  • backend => ~65%
    • Fabien: 20% (reaction rotation, PTO)
    • Igor: 95%
    • Tetiana: 45% (PTO)
    • Adam: 95%

Removing ~5% per IC to account for 360 feedback and mid year performance reviews.

Items slipping from previous release

This is a rough list of the items that may have a significant impact on that release (no need to be an exhaustive list).

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Product Goals in priority order

Q3 Direction - GitLab Hosted First - which we have taken on to mean a variety of improvements related to Performance, Reliability, Availability |

Implement as follows

Feature Links Notes
 Reaction rotation triage incoming bugs, security, customers, community contributions. use timeboxing.
 1️⃣infradev must do within SLO
 1️⃣security must do within SLO, start with P1, if none move to P2, if none move to P3. P3 can miss SLO for now
 1️⃣bugs take them on as we have room
⬆️Help Threat Insights  database sharding high priority
⬆️Database performance  high priority - database performance
⬆️upkeep tools update and scan our tools as updates are available high priority - update tools if applicable and desired (we have intentionally decided against some specific updates)
⬆️error budget - mr reports  Blocked by ongoing work in TI group. high priority - error buget improvements
⬆️error budget - Dependency List API  #337528 high priority - error buget improvements
⬆️error buget - License List   #337527 high priority - error buget improvements

upcoming

Feature Links Notes
⬆️application limits  https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/119361 high priority - application limits
⬇️ci jobs - cache/skip  &6557 LOW priority - but start thinking about it - prep issues and do refinement for upcoming releases
⬇️ci jobs - avoid running where possible  &6558 LOW priority - but start thinking about it - prep issues and do refinement for upcoming releases
⬇️ci jobs - reduce image size  &6559 LOW priority - but start thinking about it - prep issues and do refinement for upcoming releases
⬇️testing  &5822 LOW priority - but start thinking about it - prep issues and do refinement for upcoming releases
⬇️general tech debt  dashboard LOW priority - but start thinking about it - prep issues and do refinement for upcoming releases

Please work the above in order. If something of a higher category comes in you can feel free to swap it for a lower item (cc Nicole and Oliver). If it does not fall into one of the above and you think it can wait please place in %Backlog - if you feel it should be strongly considered for an upcoming release please place in %Next 1-3 releases

Feel free to use the following message Product has determined that for Q3 our priority is related to the Direction [GitLab Hosted First](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#gitlab-hosted-first) and as a result, we are only focusing on reliability, performance, and availability related items. Unfortunately, this issue does not qualify and will have to be evaluated after Q3 when we begin populating Q4. Upvoting and commenting on issues is the best way to make sure it is considered high priority as backlog items begin to be brought back in.

OLD 14.3 issue #161 (closed)

Edited by Nicole Schwartz