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Asherah Connor

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I'm Asherah, a backend engineer at GitLab. I spend a lot of time caring for our Markdown stack.

Please feel free to set up a coffee chat if you want to say hi! I think I can be a bit awkward at times but that's okay. I'm in Melbourne, Australia (UTC+10/11).

For Serious Businessβ„’, prefer async methods: @ me in a thread on GitLab, Slack me (or #g_knowledge), or an email. Sync calls are OK if higher bandwidth is absolutely necessary, but I'm not at my best in them and prefer having time to consider and respond.

Here you can find a summary of what I'm working on and what I'm tracking, generated regularly from my Pipa Index. For more information, read below!

Last updated 2026-06-03 05:05:00 UTC

Open entries (83)

Title Status Last updated Age URLs
Bumping CACHE_COMMONMARK_VERSION is risky out for re πŸŽ‰ 1 day ago 191d Add means to bump Markdown cache gradually
Bumping CACHE_COMMONMARK_VERSION is risky
Prevent markdown version changes from impacting GitLab.com DB
Extend issuable title rendering to support *only* backticks out for BE πŸŽ‰ 1 day ago 22d Add IssuableTitlePipeline with CodeSpanFilter
Extend issuable title rendering to support *only* backticks
Feat/text and image alignment in glfm out for waiting for contrib's docs changes 1 day ago 244d Feat/text and image alignment in glfm
Add Text and Image Alignment to GitLab-Flavored MarkDown
Add Geo support for agent plans 6 days ago 9d Add Geo support for agent plans
Emojis in work item titles are not rendered in the work item detail page back in CI πŸ™…β€β™€οΈ 6 days ago 43d Use titleHtml where appropriate
Emojis in work item titles are not rendered in the work item detail page
Fix broken XHTML in Atom feed for notes with line breaks consider picking up if contrib doesn't return, or if we introduce MC 2026-05-25 02:26 70d Fix broken XHTML in Atom feed for notes with line breaks
Project and branch variables for markdown tracking issue; need to bring over line 2026-05-19 05:50 244d Project and branch variables for markdown
Add support for placeholder variables in markdown
[FF] `markdown_placeholders` -- enable markdown placeholder replacements
Document <iframe> embeds to-do 2026-05-19 05:50 47d Document <iframe> embeds
Add data-title-html to reference link renders do me! 2026-05-19 05:50 35d Add data-title-html to reference link renders
<iframe> embeds to rework! 2026-05-19 05:50 244d Rework <iframe> embed configuration
Draft: Change allow_iframes_in_markdown FF from wip to gitlab_com_derisk
[FF] allow_iframes_in_markdown -- allow <iframe> embeds
<iframe> embeds in Markdown content
Feedback issue: Iframe Embed in GitLab
Figma Live Embed GitLab integration
Push iframe feature flag to frontend based on project/group, and support asset proxy adjustments
Allow iframe embeds in markdown from allowed src domains
Add Banzai filter for detecting potential `iframes`
Draft: Render an iframe on the frontend
Personal snippet reference filters do roll-out 2026-05-13 02:50 141d Add PersonalSnippetReferenceFilter for personal snippets
[Feature flag] Rollout of `personal_snippet_reference_filters`
Consider the need for user context in ReferenceFilter
Support GFM references for PersonalSnippets
Personal Snippet URLs aren't replaced by their GFM references
Reprocess GFM references in PersonalSnippet descriptions and comments
Should personal snippets get autocompleted? How? 2026-05-11 23:53 22d Should personal snippets get autocompleted? How?
Add an option to never show the smiley picker / Disable emoji in discussion 2026-05-01 01:20 34d Add a Behavior preference to disable the emoji autocomplete picker
Rich text editor duplicates some backslashes todo 2026-04-24 02:18 40d Rich text editor duplicates some backslashes
Fix non-auto-correctable Lint/EmptyBlock offenses reviewer on 2026-04-21 02:46 43d Fix non-auto-correctable Lint/EmptyBlock offenses
Draft: Add work item work plan tool capabilities WIP 2026-04-20 06:05 43d Draft: Add work item work plan tool capabilities
CacheMarkdownField.banzai_render_context forces project/group evaluation, even if it's never used banzai perf; could be wide-reaching? 2026-04-16 02:52 112d Draft: Defer group resolution in filters until actually needed
CacheMarkdownField.banzai_render_context forces project/group evaluation, even if it's never used
Extend and improve list item drag and drop functionality 2026-04-14 06:43 49d Extend and improve list item drag and drop functionality
Escaped markdown in issue title should not be interpreted as shortcuts 2026-04-07 04:01 57d Escaped markdown in issue title should not be interpreted as shortcuts
Nokogiri: [bug] Top-level text nodes returned by replace don't correspond to those inserted in the document. wait for nokogiri reply 2026-03-31 05:12 226d fix: XML::Node#replace returns all nodes reparented
Draft: Simplify complicated node replacement logic
[bug] Top-level text nodes returned by replace don't correspond to those inserted in the document.
Scope Markdown references to the current organization Cells; just FOI 2026-03-31 03:00 64d Scope Markdown references to the current organization
Have Banzai filters declare their dependency orderings; validate in spec. very nice to have 2026-03-30 03:06 93d Have Banzai filters declare their dependency orderings; validate in spec.
Indent/unindent in plain text editor is unusable on certain international keyboard layouts shortcuts to be added 2026-03-30 03:05 244d Indent/unindent in plain text editor is unusable on certain international keyboard layouts
Add file icons for OpenTofu `.tofu` files 2026-03-30 03:05 147d Add file icons for OpenTofu `.tofu` files
Update file icons library
Ticking checkboxes is very slow 2026-03-30 03:03 167d Ticking checkboxes is very slow
Toggling an issue task item checkbox updates the whole description, possibly reverting other changes 2026-03-30 03:03 187d Toggling an issue task item checkbox updates the whole description, possibly reverting other changes
Consider making the anchor icon on headers actually copy the target link to clipboard for consideration 2026-03-30 01:32 65d Consider making the anchor icon on headers actually copy the target link to clipboard
AtomPipeline mixes parse- and render-time concerns 2026-03-25 01:54 70d AtomPipeline mixes parse- and render-time concerns, and shouldn't exist
Fix flaky user_searches_for_issues_spec anonymous rate limit reviewer on 2026-03-23 01:01 72d Fix flaky user_searches_for_issues_spec anonymous rate limit
YAML frontmatter curiosities in the Wiki 2026-03-19 06:13 75d YAML frontmatter curiosities in the Wiki
Upload rewriter uses a regex to find images to reupload, missing `<img>`s etc. upload rewriter no bueno 2026-03-19 05:54 166d Upload rewriter uses a regex to find images to reupload, missing `<img>`s etc.
Plain / Rich text editor full screen enhancements draft to return to 2026-03-19 05:54 244d Draft: Plain / Rich text editor full screen enhancements
Wiki editor should preserve file path of Draw.io diagrams when editing 2026-03-19 05:54 135d Wiki editor should preserve file path of Draw.io diagrams when editing
Link over-zealously escape rich editor watch contrib discussion 2026-03-19 05:54 244d Resolve "Link over-zealously escape rich editor"
Draft: Add canonical-src
In rich text editor, links are over-zealously escaped in the resulting markdown on save
Special characters break markdown link rendering fun edge case in link normalisation 2026-03-19 05:54 167d Special characters break markdown link rendering
Bug: Switching Between Rich Text and Plain Text Editors Adds Extra Blank Lines After Comments RTE minor bug 2026-03-19 05:54 135d Bug: Switching Between Rich Text and Plain Text Editors Adds Extra Blank Lines After Comments
Color chips don't render in snippets boog 2026-03-19 05:54 98d Color chips don't render in snippets
Investigate correct fix for embedding images in mermaid diagram preview in the rich text editor 2026-03-19 00:15 76d Investigate correct fix for embedding images in mermaid diagram preview in the rich text editor
Draft: Add sticky table headers for markdown tables in view mode reviewed banzai MR 2026-03-18 23:17 76d Draft: Spike/POC: Make sticky table headers configurable
Quarantine flaky rich text editor autocomplete test 2026-03-18 22:46 104d Quarantine flaky rich text editor autocomplete test
Add some Rust-side unit tests for gitlab-glfm-markdown 2026-03-18 01:52 77d Add some Rust-side unit tests
GitLab Flavored Markdown (GLFM) parent epic 2026-03-16 05:44 78d GitLab Flavored Markdown (GLFM)
[Firefox] Copying task list from issue description contains menu item labels Firefox-specific bug with copy_as_gfm 2026-03-12 02:38 167d Copying task list from issue description contains menu item labels
Ensure a consistent GitLab Flavored Markdown experience across GitLab and Duo UI duo chat's 2026-02-27 03:19 96d Ensure a consistent GitLab Flavored Markdown experience across GitLab and Duo UI
Improve copy / paste columns and rows in tables in the Content Editor 2026-02-25 00:56 98d Improve copy / paste columns and rows in tables in the Content Editor
Fix Multi-Cell Copy/Paste Functionality in GitLab Tables
Editors: Images and videos intermittently get deleted during upload or fail to persist after saving in the Rich Text Editor (RTE) 2026-02-24 00:38 99d Editors: Images and videos intermittently get deleted during upload or fail to persist after saving in the Rich Text Editor (RTE)
Checking a task item in a note appears to have copied a different note's body across, destroying the target tracking issue for rare(?) problem 2026-02-19 00:38 104d Checking a task item in a note appears to have copied a different note's body across, destroying the target
Markdown: Various bugs to tackle epic 2026-02-18 03:27 239d Markdown: Various bugs to tackle
PoC - Markdown grid table syntax based on the Pandoc syntax customer-written Banzai filter; pre-processing Markdown in Ruby; wait for customer 2026-02-18 03:26 244d Draft: PoC - Markdown grid table syntax based on the Pandoc syntax
Possibility to use a structured table format inside markdown (Complex Table / Grid Table)
Bold Text Rendering Bug (potentially related to links present alongside text) editor bug, serialises bold around links poorly 2026-02-18 03:25 142d Formatting text with links breaks in rich-text editor (RTE)
Bold Text Rendering Bug (potentially related to links present alongside text)
pasted image disappears from markup after submitting comment text editor doesn't wait for uploads 2026-02-18 03:25 142d pasted image disappears from markup after submitting comment
Fix keyboard shortcut strikethrough formatting when rich text editing easy editor fix 2026-02-18 03:25 142d Fix keyboard shortcut strikethrough formatting when rich text editing
Embedded blockquote in list item does not work in RTE 2026-02-18 03:25 141d Embedded blockquote in list item does not work in RTE
(all devices) Rich Text Editor Bug: Image pasting line problem 2026-02-18 03:25 141d (all devices) Rich Text Editor Bug: Image pasting line problem
[RTE] Textbox Editor has excessive tab stops 2026-02-18 03:25 141d Textbox Editor has excessive tab stops
Rich Link Previews & Smart Embeds in GitLab Editors 2026-02-18 03:24 134d Rich Links in GitLab Editors
Loading work item create from a URL targeting a specific template causes the page to crash RTE display bug 2026-02-18 03:24 134d Loading work item create from a URL targeting a specific template causes the page to crash
Add XMPP URI support (RFC5122) query component of XMPP URIs not autolinked 2026-02-18 03:23 166d Add XMPP URI support (RFC5122)
REST "list releases" API doesn't split cache key on include_html_description rest api bug 2026-02-06 04:38 117d REST "list releases" API doesn't split cache key on include_html_description
Collaborative Editing in GitLab 2026-01-13 03:05 141d Collaborative Editing in GitLab
Real-time Editing of Issue Descriptions (REID)
Ability to see snippets of code in issue and MR descriptions 2026-01-13 02:38 141d Ability to see snippets of code in issue and MR descriptions
Implement Sticky Table Headers in GitLab Tables todo on verify 2026-01-13 00:29 141d Implement Sticky Table Headers in GitLab Tables
Add copy button to graphs/diagrams to copy source contributor assigned 2026-01-13 00:20 141d Add copy button to graphs/diagrams to copy source
Snippets do not accurately reproduce the exact characters that were entered (tabs are replaced by spaces) 2026-01-12 06:03 141d Snippets do not accurately reproduce the exact characters that were entered (tabs are replaced by spaces)
Support new math syntax in content editor 2026-01-12 06:02 141d Support new math syntax in content editor
little space between a list and its following text in RTL languages RTL CSS issue 2026-01-12 05:16 141d little space between a list and its following text in RTL languages
Table line return in Markdown plain text editor need an option to convert line return in <br> nice idea, good for contrib 2026-01-12 04:07 142d Table line return in Markdown plain text editor need an option to convert line return in <br>
Collections MVP: Enable teams to manage work independent from code structure GLQL 2025-12-22 06:19 167d Collections MVP: Enable teams to manage work independent from code structure
Replace GitLab's Tokenized Filtering with an Improved Filtering Component System GLQL 2025-12-18 02:28 167d Replace GitLab's Tokenized Filtering with an Improved Filtering Component System
Make Pages::DeletePagesDeploymentWorker compatible with group archival reviewed 2025-12-18 02:14 167d Make Pages::DeletePagesDeploymentWorker compatible with group archival
Trainee Maintainer: Asherah Connor (GitLab) tracking issue 2025-12-11 03:45 177d Trainee Maintainer: Asherah Connor (GitLab)
Enable Kroki diagrams on gitlab.com 2025-11-27 02:02 188d Enable Kroki diagrams on gitlab.com
Add support for Typograms; anything re: Kroki backlog 2025-11-27 01:45 244d Add support for Typograms as a diagram type in GitLab Flavoured Markdown
Enable Kroki to support more Markdown diagram formats
Wavedrom
Rich Text Editor in Single-file Editor 2025-11-20 00:02 195d Rich Text Editor in Single-file Editor
Allow math blocks to use global Katex macros feature request 2025-11-13 03:16 202d Allow math blocks to use global Katex macros
Quarantine a flaky test test of gfm autocomplete of wiki pages flakey; repro flake on VM? 2025-11-06 03:18 219d Quarantine a flaky test
Port GLQL to TypeScript 2025-10-21 04:41 225d Port GLQL to TypeScript
Video snapshot instead of download when page open on roadmap 2025-10-14 23:39 231d Video snapshot instead of download when page open
Make list controls usable in all GLFM contexts to be prioritised 2025-10-10 01:50 236d Make list controls usable in all GLFM contexts
Asciidoctor does not work with Ruby 3.4 unlikely to change? 2025-10-08 01:41 238d Asciidoctor does not work with Ruby 3.4
[Markdown] Ruby 3.3/3.4 Gem Compatibility Review
Consider consistent header anchors 2025-10-06 23:45 239d Consider consistent header anchors
Migrate EmojiFilter to use native support to investigate 2025-10-06 23:43 239d Migrate EmojiFilter to use native support
Remove use of commonmarker gem for import nice-to-have 2025-10-03 01:15 244d Remove use of commonmarker gem for import
Add back commonmarker
Remove CMARK_ENGINE used in older markdown rendering

Entries closed in FY2027Q2 (40)

Title Status Closed Age URLs
bump gprd to 272329e49cb7c3abce2ea1781191cd44752f2d16 superseded 1 day ago 0d bump gprd to 272329e49cb7c3abce2ea1781191cd44752f2d16
k8s-workloads: Configure agent plan buckets in gstg, gprd split up and done, needs vendir 2 days ago 3d [gprd] Configure agent plan bucket
[gstg] Configure agent plan bucket
[gprd] Configure object storage for SDD workplan content
Configure agent plan buckets in gstg, gprd
Figure out agent_plan_content backups merged 2 days ago 17d Add agent_plan_content to backup utilities
Add agent_plan_content to backup-utility
Validate backup-utility config of agent_plan_content object storage
Figure out agent_plan_content backups
CR: Create a new object storage for SDD workplan content CR for creating buckets 5 days ago 2d Create a new object storage for SDD workplan content
SDD agent plan bucket configuration in Charts, Omnibus both landed, provisioning & k8s-workloads to do 5 days ago 20d Add agent_plan_content object storage configuration
Add agent_plan_content object storage configuration
Support alert block rendering for org-mode and textile another input semantic modifying contrib MR 6 days ago 0d Support alert block rendering for org-mode and textile
Support alert blocks for org-mode rendering
SanitizeNodeLink handles URLs that can't decode to valid UTF-8 superseded 2026-05-27 02:18 1d SanitizeNodeLink handles URLs that can't decode to valid UTF-8
SanitizeLinkFilter raises an error when normalizing URLs with invalid UTF-8 characters
Dependency firewall - vulnerability rule evaluator reviewer on 2026-05-26 02:38 21d Dependency firewall - vulnerability rule evaluator
Agent plan storage needs to support consolidated object storage configuration merged 2026-05-25 01:55 6d Support consolidated object storage configuration for agent plans
Agent plan storage needs to support consolidated object storage configuration
Support inline diff rendering in non-Markdown markup reviewer on 2026-05-25 01:35 0d Support inline diff rendering in non-Markdown markup
Wire `author_source` into `completed_pipeline_execution` and `first_pipeline_succeeded` events reviewer on 2026-05-25 01:25 0d Wire `author_source` into `completed_pipeline_execution` and `first_pipeline_succeeded` events
fix: Gate AgentPlan uses on GitLab >= 19.0 merged, and then reverted for later fix 2026-05-25 00:34 2d fix: Gate AgentPlan uses on GitLab >= 19.0
Agent plan storage doesn't work when file_store = 2 (REMOTE) donezo! 2026-05-25 00:33 5d Agent plan storage doesn't work when file_store = 2 (REMOTE)
Fix ExternallyStoredField with file_store = 2 (REMOTE)
Allow URL import into groups when personal project creation disabled reviewer on 2026-05-22 05:27 0d Allow URL import into groups when personal project creation disabled
Add agent_plan_content config and MinIO bucket merged 2026-05-22 01:43 1d Add agent_plan_content config and MinIO bucket
Create agent-plan-content bucket in GDK
Removed Product_analytics related graphql & specs reviewer on 2026-05-21 06:20 0d Removed Product_analytics related graphql & specs
Scope agent_plan FF check to root ancestor reviewer on 2026-05-21 04:58 0d Scope agent_plan FF check to root ancestor
Fix Failure rate and Success rate denominator on CI/CD analytics page reviewer on 2026-05-20 07:37 0d Fix Failure rate and Success rate denominator on CI/CD analytics page
Add tests for new ASCP scopes reviewer on 2026-05-20 06:57 0d Add tests for new ASCP scopes
Feat: Maintenance - update user endpoint in sessions reviewer on 2026-05-20 06:13 0d Feat: Maintenance - update user endpoint in sessions
Add syntax highlighting and Mermaid rendering for org-mode files contrib markdown; nice 2026-05-19 23:58 0d Add syntax highlighting and Mermaid rendering for org-mode files
Kroki diagram proxy fails with private IP Kroki URLs due to inconsistent SSRF filtering between Rails and Workhorse deployed & backported 2026-05-19 23:14 21d Backport of 'Send allowed endpoints to Workhorse for diagram proxy'
Kroki diagram proxy fails with private IP Kroki URLs due to inconsistent SSRF filtering between Rails and Workhorse
Send allowed endpoints to Workhorse for diagram proxy
Check work item features or widgets for agent plan 2026-05-19 05:50 1d Check work item features or widgets for agent plan
Add api and ai_workflows scopes to Ascp types to support Business Context flow reviewer on 2026-05-19 04:00 0d Add api and ai_workflows scopes to Ascp types to support Business Context flow
[EE] Spec: opt out of let_it_be freeze in ee/spec/requests/part-1 (103 files) (#600267) reviewer on 2026-05-19 01:25 0d [EE] Spec: opt out of let_it_be freeze in ee/spec/requests/part-1 (103 files) (#600267)
[EE] Spec: opt out of let_it_be freeze in ee/spec/controllers (11 files) (#600267) reviewer on 2026-05-19 01:23 0d [EE] Spec: opt out of let_it_be freeze in ee/spec/controllers (11 files) (#600267)
[FixPipeline] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/pipelines/2527260995 reviewer on 2026-05-18 04:41 0d [FixPipeline] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/pipelines/2527260995
Fix no-invalid-media-type-examples in OpenAPI reviewer on 2026-05-15 02:08 0d Fix no-invalid-media-type-examples in OpenAPI
Track merge request retarget events reviewer on 2026-05-14 04:19 0d Track merge request retarget events
Fix vue require-name-property in deploy keys components reviewer on 2026-05-14 00:21 0d Fix vue require-name-property in deploy keys components
Verify message origin in draw.io listener merged 2026-05-14 00:16 2d Verify message origin in Draw.io listener
Draw.io listener needs to verify message origin
Improve lock contention for groups and projects transfers reviewer on 2026-05-12 01:04 0d Improve lock contention for groups and projects transfers
Support iframe embeds in rich-text editor merged 2026-05-11 06:56 26d Support iframe embeds in rich-text editor
Refactor media resize into shared mixin and fix drag-and-drop in work items
Support iframe embeds in rich-text editor
Add allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox to render_iframe, and rationale closed; to be reworked 2026-05-11 06:54 24d Add allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox to render_iframe, and rationale
Add REST API client functions for mirror management reviewer on 2026-05-11 04:24 0d Add REST API client functions for mirror management
Avoid loading all labels when autocompleting quick action commands reviewer on 2026-05-07 03:09 0d Avoid loading all labels when autocompleting quick action commands
feat: add orbit_settings user preference with killswitch and preferences UI reviewer on 2026-05-05 00:40 0d feat: add orbit_settings user preference with killswitch and preferences UI
Editor preview shortcut no longer works to return to plain text editing local config issue 2026-05-04 01:07 5d Editor preview shortcut no longer works to return to plain text editing
refactor: Apply rubocop auto-corrections to lib/api/commits.rb reviewer on 2026-05-01 06:26 0d refactor: Apply rubocop auto-corrections to lib/api/commits.rb
Stop manually piecing together HTML in TableOfContentsTagFilter merged 2026-05-01 01:13 85d Stop manually piecing together HTML in TableOfContentsTagFilter
Stop manually piecing together HTML in TableOfContentsTagFilter

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