What can we learn and improve from the badge count feature release
It's not entirely clear why the badge count feature (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/29866) was not included in the 9.0.3 patch release (https://about.gitlab.com/2017/04/05/gitlab-9-dot-0-dot-3-released/). It was indicated in the release blog post that this feature was released, but it wasn't actually released. We should not mislead our users, especially since this was to address the highly sensitive navigation complaints from our community after the 9.0 release. When we discovered this, we quickly updated the blog post: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/5560/diffs.
Action items
- Find out what happened?
- How can we improve going forward?