FY25Q3 Stage lead planning issue: Secure

This issue outlines the projects that will be the focus of the Secure stage lead during Q3 of 2024.

Projects

Static Analysis

• Project: Expand documentation coverage.
• Reasoning: Several common SAST features are not documented. These changes will provide users with the information they need to successfully use these features.
• Note: These issues were carried over from FY25Q2.

Issue	Status	Priority	Details
gitlab#466442	✅ Complete	Medium	Target is 17.3 17.2. Led by: Engineer
gitlab#466443	✅ Complete	Medium	Target is 17.3 17.2. Led by: Engineer

Secret Detection

• Project: Adding best practices for setting up, configuring, and rolling out security scanners to our documentation
• Reasoning: Test the documentation structure proposed in Security Products Documentation Overhaul (gitlab-com&2375)

Issue	Status	Priority	Details
gitlab#474050	⌛ Waiting on technical writer	High	Target is %17.5 Led by: Technical writer (Russell)
gitlab#468087	✅ Complete	Medium	Led by: Technical writer (Phillip)

• Project: Create tutorials that match or complement feature demonstrations recorded by SD engineers.
• Reasoning: Several important features have been added recently to SD. Providing matching tutorials helps users become familiar with the features.

Issue	Status	Priority	Details
gitlab#478663	✅ Complete	Medium	Target is %17.5 Led by: Technical writer (Phillip)

• Project: Improve clarity of documentation on client-side secret detection: what it protects against and confirmation of its scope.
• Reasoning: CSPP is a preventative measure so it's important that users understand its benefits.

Issue	Status	Priority	Details
gitlab#470444	✅ Complete	Medium	Target is %17.5 Led by: Technical writer (Russell)

Security policies

• Project: Improve security policy troubleshooting content
• Reasoning: Users find it difficult to find relevant troubleshooting content. Also, some issues that users are encountering could be prevented with improved prerequisites.

Issue	Status	Priority	Details
gitlab#474183	✅ Complete	Medium	Target is %17.5 17.4 - Led by: Technical writer (Russell)

• Project: Improve introduction to security policies
• Reasoning: Introductory content is key to users' success in guiding them in what security policies are and which one(s) to choose.

Issue	Status	Priority	Details
gitlab#477908	✅ Complete	Medium	Target is %17.5 17.4 - Led by: Technical writer (Ryan)
gitlab#477910	⌛ Waiting on TW	Medium	Target is %17.5 - Led by: Technical writer (Ryan)

Ongoing tasks

Manage TW-DRI assignments for all milestones:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/boards/7602348

Specific milestone planning issues:

• 17.3 - #1061 (closed). Release date 2024-08-09.

References

• Stage lead process (experiment)