14.8 planning - Composition Analysis (January-Feburary)

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Context

Capacity variations

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

  • backend => 70%

    • Fabien: 50% (PTO)
    • Igor: ~80% (Kid at home)
    • Tetiana: 100%
    • Adam: 50% (reaction rotation)
  • frontend

Items slipping from the 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

Q4 - auto-remediation, display dependency path mvc, start on LF replacement research and SBOM step 1

Always

Feature Links Notes
 Reaction rotation triage incoming bugs, security, customers, community contributions. use timeboxing.
 infradev must do within SLO
 security must do within SLO, start with P1, if none move to P2, if none move to P3. P3 can miss SLO for now
 bugs filled in as we have space
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)

TOP SPOTS

Feature Links Notes
EPIC: Auto-Remediation: auto-create merge request BLOCKED BLOCKED
EPIC: Show paths to dependencies MVC Show vulnerable package
EPIC: SBOM MVC - 1: ISBOM issue
EPIC: Engineering Research: How do we advance alternate license scanning FOSS POC
Help S&P / GitLab

GOALS

Feature Links Notes
De-duplication / aggregation issue
test work all issues - this milestone issues keep incrementally improving out testing, do 1 per
15.0 Deprecations and Removals - SCA

Stretch

Feature Links Notes
️Refactor configuration page  Unification of backend for CE & EE high priority - partner with frontend
OKR-Personal Growth project please try to put some time against this
OKR-hiring please prioritize this is you are tapped to help
OKR-psychological safety training here and here try to make some time for this
OKR-UX TBD TBD
OKR-QA TBD TBD
OKR-error budget TBD TBD

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 our current priority is related to finishing off two of our longstanding projects (automatic remediation mr creation by bot and show dependency paths) and starting on our next two projects (SBOM and replacing license finder). 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.

Edited by Nicole Schwartz