FY25Q4 Stage Lead planning issue: Verify
Issue description
This issue outlines the projects that will be the focus of the devopsverify stage lead during Q4 of FY25.
Themes
Support Verify team with stage-level reviews
- Short description: Be ready to review incoming issue pings and reviews for stage-level reviews.
- Reasoning:
- Note:
| Issue | Group(s) | Status | Effort | Priority | Details |
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| Draft: Improving usability in CI/CD Settings (gitlab-org/gitlab#498476) | devopsverify | Medium | Medium | Target milestone is 17.7. Led by: @sunjungp
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| PA + Environment team Paper Cuts (gitlab-org#14965) | devopsverify | Medium | Medium | Target milestone is 17.8. Led by: @sunjungp
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| CI/CD Steps reviews | devopsverify | Medium | Medium | Led by: @cam_swords. Related: Update the CI Steps Tutorial (gitlab-org/step-runner#141 - closed)
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| https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-OKRs/-/work_items/10049+ | devopsverify | Unknown | High | Led by: PMs
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Related MRs:
Support Verify stage TWs with docs revamps/improvements
- Short description: Offer advice and handle reviews for larger Verify docs improvements from Roshni and Lysanne for their assigned groups.
- Reasoning: We should work together to improve documentation for individual features in our groups, and I have experience with most and can use my CI/CD experience to help with the reviews.
- Note:
| Issue | Group(s) | Status | Effort | Priority | Details |
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| Improve documentation for Code Coverage (gitlab-org/gitlab#354906 - closed) | grouppipeline execution | Medium | Low | Led by: @lyspin
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| Improve Mobile DevOps docs | grouprunner | Medium | Low | Led by: @rsarangadharan
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| Improve Gitlab Runner Autoscaling core ideas in... (gitlab-org/gitlab-runner#38311 - closed) | grouprunner | High | Low | Led by: @rsarangadharan
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MRs:
- Mobile DevOps doc update and tutorial (gitlab-org/gitlab!178712 - merged)
- Restructures code coverage docs (gitlab-org/gitlab!179914 - merged)
- Moves tool-specific docs as child pages for cod... (gitlab-org/gitlab-docs!5345 - merged)
Improve reference or stage-wide docs that impact most features
- Short description:
- Reasoning:
| Issue | Group(s) | Status | Effort | Priority | Details |
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Change from Possible inputs in reference |
devopsverify | Low | Medium | Led by: @marcel.amirault
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| Remove GraphQL and API deprecations from Deprec... (gitlab-org/gitlab#509889 - closed) | Documentation guidelines | High | Medium | Led by: @marcel.amirault. After research, realized they are in correct place. Guidelines updated instead. |
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| Docs: Changing global variables to default vari... (gitlab-org/gitlab#507750 - closed) | grouppipeline authoring | High | Low | Led by: @marcel.amirault
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| Update screenshots of Needs tab in Pipelines page (gitlab-org/gitlab#491190 - closed) | devopsverify | High | Medium | Led by: @marcel.amirault
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MRs:
- Rename possible inputs to supported values (gitlab-org/gitlab!175215 - merged)
- Rename global variables as default variables (gitlab-org/gitlab!175227 - merged)
- Update deprecation notes (gitlab-org/gitlab!176215 - merged)
- Fix GraphQL removals being labelled as deprecat... (gitlab-org/gitlab!176208 - merged)
- Docs update pipeline screenshots (gitlab-org/gitlab!179198 - merged)
Legend:
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⏳ : Waiting for<...>.technical writer, orPM input, orEngineering input -
🚧 : In progress -
✅ : Complete -
🏋🏽 : Stretch goal (add next to any item that is aspirational this quarter)
Other
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Create board and process to review backlog docs items. - Details: Related discussion: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/technical-writing/-/issues/1161#note_2222428985
- Backlog items resolved this quarter:
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Continue reviewing page intros across CI/CD docs - Details: Continued from last TW Lead issue. Consider using AI to speed up the process.
Ongoing tasks
Manage TW-DRI assignments for all milestones:
Specific TW milestone planning issues:
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17.6. Release date: November 21st, 2024 -
17.7. Release date: December 19th, 2024 -
17.8. Release date: January 16th, 2025
Team OKRs:
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https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/technical-writing/-/issues/1170+ -
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/technical-writing/-/issues/1168+
References
Edited by Lysanne Pinto