15.9 Plan retrospective
This is an asynchronous retrospective for 15.9. It's private to the Plan group, plus anyone else that worked with the group during 15.9. 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 15.9 milestone):
group::project management
- Work items discussions widget: Threads
- Work Item - support quick actions through editing description
- Convert a markdown checklist item to a Task
group::optimize
- Time to Restore Service DORA4 metric calculation inconsistency.
- MVC: Add project pointer for project level "Analytics Dashboards"
- Adoption by Group table links throw 404 when GitLab is configured with a relative URL
- [VSA parity] Move EE API requests into api/analytics_api module
- [VSA parity] Update the BG aggregation and query logic
group::product planning
- [
🎨 Design] Work items - create ability to turn on notifications - FE: Allow users to filter epic list by specific group
- Filtering Roadmap by epic returns no results for child epics
- API Deprecation and Removal Planning for %15.9
- BE: Allow users to delete comments that they authored within Design Management
group::certify
- GraphQL: Enable legacy IID filtering under Work Items GraphQL query
- GraphQL: Expose legacy requirement IID under Work Item Requirement type in GraphQL
- Create "test reports" widget for requirements work item type
- Show work item IID in requirements list
- Work Items: Restructure CSV export/import classes
- Add Label UI is unusable in Test Case sidebar
All closed issues (within 15.9 milestone)
Issues that slipped
group::product planning
- Inconsistent textarea behaviour when commenting design
- Work Items: Auto expanded summary quick view using markdown
- BE: Convert Key Result to Objective
- OKR for GitLab: Allow Undo removal of indirect children of Objective to prevent refetch
- FE: Allow users to delete comments that they authored within Design Management
- Hide error when polling new notes on issues fails
- BE: Work Items - Ability to reorder work items in the Child Items widget
Open follow-up issues from previous retros
- Total deliverables closed: 19
- Total issues closed: 140
- Total MRs merged: 248
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