15.8 Plan retrospective
This is an asynchronous retrospective for 15.8. It's private to the Plan group, plus anyone else that worked with the group during 15.8. This retrospective will be following the process described at https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/management/group-retrospectives/
Please feel free to honestly describe your thoughts and feelings about working on that release below.
Please look at back at your experiences working on this release, ask yourself
For each point you want to raise, please create a new discussion with the relevant emoji, so that others can weigh in with their perspectives, and so that we can easily discuss any follow-up action items in-line.
(If there is something you are not comfortable sharing, message your manager directly. But note that 'Emotions are not only allowed in retrospectives, they should be encouraged', so we'd love to hear from you here if possible.)
Issues we shipped
Deliverables (closed issues with ~Deliverable label for 15.8 milestone):
group::product planning
- Update epic items tree permissions for child issues
- BE: Allow users to filter epic list by specific group
- Update epic items tree
- Group minimum role should be Guest for adding child epic
group::project management
- Work Items have the wrong URL when clicking on a contribution graph day
- TODO and user activity filters should handle work items
group::certify
- Deprecate dedicated requirement object (legacy) IID in GraphQL API
- Use work item IID for requirements filtering
All closed issues (within 15.8 milestone)
Issues that slipped
group::product planning
- Add internal field note for Elastic
- OKR Bugs
- Allow user to toggle labels on to be displayed within the roadmap view
- [Feature flag] Enable delayed_epics_update_cached_metadata_worker
- Remove background migration for todo sanitization
- [Feature flag] Rollout board_grouped_by_epic_performance
- Hide error when polling new notes on issues fails
- Investigate and fix epic cached counts mismatch
- [Feature flag] Enable check_epic_cached_values
- [Feature flag] Enable use_epic_cached_metadata
- Migrate CSS rules to utility classes in ee/app/assets/stylesheets/page_bundles/epics.scss
- Allow creation of issues from an epic using quick actions
- [Feature flag] Rollout
epic_color_highlight
- [Feature flag] Enable and display total weight for epic lists (frontend)
- Update endpoints to read weight from epic model
- BE: Allow users to delete comments that they authored within Design Management
- [Feature flag] Remove
design_management_allow_dangerous_images
feature flag
- Total deliverables closed: 8
- Total issues closed: 48
- Total MRs merged: 126
Value Stream Analytics
Visualize the key metrics for the release by reviewing the Value Stream Analytics (VSA).
- VSA for this release
- It would be great to get your ~dogfooding feedback on VSA. Give it a try and leave your comments in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/plan/-/issues/759.
- Known issues & feature gaps