[meta] 8.14

What is this?

This is the meta issue for the 8.14 milestone. Here we gather what we think is what we should work on next. This is not the place to suggest new features, but rather, which of those features we should build this specific release.

The closer we get to the 8.14 release, the more definitive the list with issues becomes.

Please feel free to edit this issue

Idea to Production Issues

• P1 Review apps UX: @dimitrieh, FE: @filipa
  • Auto-close environment when branch is deleted
  • Display "folders" for environments
• P1 Mattermost slash commands UX: @pedroms
• P2 Terminal support UX: @tauriedavis, FE: @iamphill
• P3 Update pipelines in real-time or at least refresh UX: @dimitrieh, FE: @selfup
• P3 Introduces the system information element in the Build page to give info about currently deployed environments UX: @tauriedavis

Direction Issues

Will have a dedicated backend developer available for the entire release:

• JIRA: second round - BE: @felipe_artur, FE: @nmrony
• EE Time tracking: first iteration - BE: @rdavila UX: @tauriedavis, FE: @brycepj
• EE Product Geo: Disaster Recovery [proof of concept] - @patricio

Limited in the amount of backend attention they will get:

• Rethinking filters/search [mostly frontend work for 8.14] UX: @cperessini, FE: @ClemMakesApps
• Continue with Cycle Analytics: second iteration [limited to 2 weeks] - BE: @jameslopez UX: @hazelyang, FE: @alfredo1
  • Cycle analytics: events per stage
• Group Labels: second iteration [not more than 1 week of work] - BE: @dbalexandre UX: @tauriedavis, FE: @alfredo1

Customer requests

• Support for Microsoft Exchange MIME-encoded emails - Reply by email
• Ref switcher performance/prevent crashing FE: @iamphill
• Default project visibility and feature settings are not used for new projects
• Database migration can lead to invalid group record

CI issues

• Make CI be executed in context of Merge Request:
  • https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14654
  • https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15310
  • https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20576
• P3 Make it possible to define a coverage regexp in job's configuration in YAML
• P3 Global Pipelines List + Filters for pipelines
• P4 Cross-project pipelines
• Cross-project build artifacts dependencies
• Add dependencies to .gitlab-ci.yml (EE-only?)
• CI architecture changes for multi-project pipelines

Frontend Issues

• Fixed Width Mediaqueries and Human Readable Line Length @mikegreiling
• Make system notes less intrusive to a conversation @nmrony
• Updated UI for Snippets pages @mikegreiling
• Missing design for wiki pages @mikegreiling

UX Improvements

Issues that can be picked up by UX before the 8.14 is started, so that the work is done on time for 8.14 milestone.

• meta Organize and Standardize settings UX: @tauriedavis, FE: @lbennett
• meta Give love to settings screens FE: @lbennett
• meta Continue work on Getting started with GitLab UX: @hazelyang, FE: @lbennett
• meta Frontend Performance UX: @hazelyang @pedroms
• resolve conflicts link is too subtle UX: @pedroms
• EE unapprove merge requests UX: @hazelyang

Core Improvements

• Add start date for milestones
• Issue with large discussion performance FE: @jschatz1
• Autocomplete is not performant FE: @lbennett
• Deleting a user should not delete their issues

Performance Improvements

• Throttling Sidekiq
• Project Cache worker runs to often and takes too long
• Remove default scope
• Aggregate contributions
• Improve efficiency of auto-scaled runners for GitLab.com
• Artifacts
• Make CI observable

Community Contributions for MR Coaches

• Add setting to only allow merge requests to be merged when all discussions are resolved
• Global read only audit user
• Deploy keys with write access
• Diff note notification emails should include the diff hunk for context
• Remove unreferenced LFS objects from DB and FS

:mind-blown:

Milestone changed to %8.14

Dump of EE specific:

• Better first screens after EE installation and new Enter your license screen
• Repository mirroring: Support for SSH keys: 7 votes, customers are "desperate"

Two issues that come to mind to consider:

• Fixed Width Mediaqueries and Human Readable Line Length
• Make system notes less intrusive to a conversation

Both of these have the UX already worked out, and would be great improvements to the readability of long comment threads on issues.

Customer bugs to consider for 8.14:

• Import rake task doesn't clear cache - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20925
• Comments are allowed in expanded diffs, but comments are lost after submission - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20351
• Invalid raw diff type: String on old merge requests - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20776
• Cannot view MR when commit doesn't have a parent - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19384

@JobV: Under UX improvements, #22210 (closed) should be added with 22171 - [meta] Give love to settings screens. If we start with #22210 (closed), we will be able to have a more consistent approach to Settings, and will be able to more quickly make better decisions on an individual basis for #22171 (moved). It might push some of the #22171 (moved) work to next release, but the end result would be better Let me know if you have concerns with that. Thanks! cc @tauriedavis

@awhildy none whatsoever. Next time feel free to edit the issue :)

@regisF @JobV two things I’d like to prioritize for %8.14 for backend availability. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13386 and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19797 Should be P1

@JobV Something needs to be done here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/10328 Can we just implement that so we don't have to rely on email anymore? cc @ClemMakesApps

These 8.13 direction features are not going to be shipped in 8.13:

• P1 Half of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22458: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/6859
• P1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22182, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20799
• P1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22191
• P1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22406
• P2 Parts of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21365: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/928, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21264, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21538
• P3 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/985
• P3 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21747
• P4 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/895, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/896

I'd like availability of @rdavila for another small update on version.gitlab.com: Usage pings: add a column showing the number of users over their license

Added meta label

Need to add the idea to production stuff that was cut from 8.13 and anything new that has come up that is needed to complete that vision.

Right, I think we should pick up the pieces for idea to production:

• Mattermost global slash commands (relates to #22182 (closed) and #20799 (closed), but it's in Mattermost)
• Terminal support (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22864)

#22406 (closed) can be removed.

In preparation for our call:

Adding https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/5613 as it's not looking like it will make 8.13. It's been an issue for far too long - deals with backup problems. There's a MR in progress, but we need to keep a watch on it.

Bugs

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18182 - Files view crashes browser in a repository with 100K branches (CERN)
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18202 - Ref switcher performance/prevent crashing (CERN)
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23242 - 8.12 regression - Default project visibility and feature settings are not used for new projects
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22699 - Older migration caused invalid group objects. Now causing issues with LDAP group sync. Need to retroactively fix group records.
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20351 - Comments are allowed in expanded diffs, but comments are lost after submission

These 5 bugs should replace any previous bugs submitted earlier. Some of these are older/didn't get solved in prior releases so we can bump the others.

Note

8.12 regression issue closed, but outstanding issues not moved forward - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22011

Mentioned in issue #18388 (closed)

@stanhu @DouweM I'm not sure about #22406 (closed). We cut it from the demo because of time constraints, but don't we still plan on it for completing the vision before the end of the year? Perhaps Koding isn't ready for us to pick it up for 8.14 though.

I believe that we should focus on two important things from operation cost of CI:

• Enforce CI limits: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23366
• Improve efficiency of auto-scaled runners for GitLab.com: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/569

I've updated the issue description! Here are the main things I've removed from the description, and where they are now.

Unprioritized in %8.14:

• EE Automatic rebase when merging
• EE Repository mirroring with SSH
• EE Squash commits when merging a Merge request
• EE burndown charts UX @pedroms [currently stalled, some open questions about how to handle start/end dates]

Moved to %Backlog:

• EE Group level issue boards
• Transactional 'batch' merge request comments
• EE Suggest approvers based on changes
• Ability to transfer ownership

Already assigned to %9.0:

• EE Product HA package product (Product) [dependent on packaging team]

Customer requests from the original issue body that have been superseded by https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22689#note_17209429 are in %8.14, but without priority labels:

• EE Custom templates for .gitignore, .gitlab-ci.yml, LICENSE [popular and requested]
• Include branch permission info in API calls
• No markdown preview when editing .md files
• Import rake task doesn't clear cache
• Cannot view MR when commit doesn't have a parent

@JobV @regisF https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22689#direction-issues is still open to change, that's just what we had based on four backend devs available for direction features and the priorities from the call yesterday. Please update that if you want and remove the priority labels from anything that gets moved out of there.

Mentioned in issue gitlab-com/support#179 (closed)

thanks @smcgivern, I hope to finish this over the weekend together with you all. I think we'll need to move 1-2 things, but the general direction is good.

Btw, much love @DouweM @smcgivern to the effort here!

note to self, prioritize this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21264

Two tasks to prioritize for version.gitlab.com:

• Usage pings: add a column showing the number of users over their license
• Add Products usage statistics

Adding: starting date for milestones required for burndown charts

@ClemMakesApps thanks for helping me out with updating this.

Mentioned in merge request !6865 (merged)

Mentioned in merge request !6755 (merged)

Mentioned in merge request !7032 (merged)

Mentioned in merge request !6956 (closed)

Milestone changed to %8.15

closed