8.15 Edge Plan

This is what the Edge team is currently working on.

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• backstage improvements
• technical debt issues
• Community Contribution merge requests

Work on Community Contributions

• Prioritize Community Contribution merge requests: #23486 (closed)

Backstage improvements: @rspeicher, @jacobvosmaer-gitlab & @rymai

Backend

• Working to reduce CE-to-EE merge conflicts: gitlab-org/gitlab-ee#715
  • Identify diff by file between CE & EE: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/715#note_16838348 + https://gitlab.com/rymai/ce_ee_diffs_generator/tree/master/diffs
  • Add CE code missing from EE: gitlab-org/gitlab-ee#1127
  • meta [mid-term] Refactor often conflicting files to reduce potential CE->EE conflicts: gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#23864
  • meta [long-term] Brainstorm long-term architectural solution to avoid CE->EE conflicts: gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#23865
    • Consider bringing view decorators back: #23563 (closed)
• meta backstage Stretch Reduce our test suite duration: #24899 (moved)
• technical debt Reduce duplication introduced in issuable_filters_present: #23546 (closed)
• technical debt Deprecate the gitlab-projects command: gitlab-shell#44
• Provide a new gitlab:workhorse:install Rake task similar to gitlab:shell:install: !6574 (merged) (@rymai)
• Improve CI API requests: gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#21698 (@bkc)
  • Reduce DB-load for build-queues by storing last_update in Redis: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/8084
  • build/register.json stores last_update : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/410
  • Make workhorse Redis-aware : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-workhorse/issues/85

Backlog

• meta Improve code quality by using static analysis: #3444 (closed)
  • Custom Rubocop rules to add: #18040 (moved)
  • Enable HAML-LINT linters: #22072 (closed)
  • Enable Rails/OutputSafety cop: #19457 (moved)

GitLab Workhorse

• Expose Prometheus metrics in Workhorse
  • Expose service metrics via Prometheus: gitlab-workhorse#61 (closed) => gitlab-workhorse!86 (merged) + gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!7868
  • Support gitlab-workhorse '-prometheusListenAddr' option (8.15): omnibus-gitlab#1751 (closed) => omnibus-gitlab!1116 (closed) + omnibus-gitlab!1139 (merged)
• Add Gitlab::Workhorse::Multipart
  • gitlab-workhorse!58 (merged)
  • !5867 (merged)
• Caching for git cat-file: gitlab-workhorse#80 (closed) => gitlab-workhorse!90 (closed)

Frontend

• meta Frontend decisions regarding styleguides and external libs: #23495 (moved)

Community Interfacing: @markglenfletcher & @mattl

• GitLab-CE Stale Issue Closure Proposal: #21769 (moved) (@markglenfletcher)
• Issue bash: #17815 (closed) (@markglenfletcher)
• Merge always in progress: gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#2995 (@mattl)
• Adds a default commit message when adding a README: #25167 (closed) => !7903 (merged) (@mattl)
• Confidential: !7682 (closed) (@mattl)

Gitea: @bkc

• Test GitHub importer with Gogs: #22348 (closed) => !6945 (closed)
  • GitHub API Compliance Fixes: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/227
  • Pull Requests API: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/248
• Add pagination to releases: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/2164 => https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/73
• Gitea 1.0.0: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/milestone/1
• Testability Strategy: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/63
• Improvements to the API (1.1.0): https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/64

Go SDK

• GitHub-API compliance: https://github.com/go-gitea/go-sdk/pull/9
• Implement more Issue endpoints: https://github.com/go-gitea/go-sdk/pull/8
• Finish Issue-Comments: https://github.com/go-gitea/go-sdk/pull/7
• API support for Pull Requests: https://github.com/go-gitea/go-sdk/pull/11

Git External Object Database support: @chriscool

Project description: https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/organization/issues/789

• RFC v3: https://public-inbox.org/git/20161130210420.15982-1-chriscool@tuxfamily.org/
• Working on integrating git-lfs with Git through external object database support in Git: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/1702

Other Git-related issues

• Can't shallow clone repo's on gitlab.com: gitlab-workhorse#36 (closed)
• Clicking "History" should use --follow so we can have history even if files got moved/renamed: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23062#note_16624123
• Clean up old .nfsXXX files after 'git gc' and 'git repack': gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#24789 (@jacobvosmaer-gitlab)

Marked the task Expose service metrics via Prometheus: gitlab-workhorse#61 (closed) (@jacobvosmaer-gitlab) as completed

Marked the task technical debt Reduce duplication introduced in issuable_filters_present: #23546 (closed) as completed

Marked the task Provide a new gitlab:workhorse:install Rake task similar to gitlab:shell:install: !6574 (merged) (@rymai) as completed

mentioned in issue #15599 (closed)

marked the task Support gitlab-workhorse '-prometheusListenAddr' option (8.15): omnibus-gitlab#1751 (closed) => omnibus-gitlab!1116 (closed) + omnibus-gitlab!1139 (merged) as completed

marked the task gitlab-workhorse!58 (merged) as completed

marked the task Test GitHub importer with Gogs: #22348 (closed) => !6945 (closed) as completed

marked the task Issue bash: #17815 (closed) (@markglenfletcher) as completed

marked the task !5867 (merged) as completed

marked the task build/register.json stores last_update : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/410 as completed

marked the task Gitea 1.0.0: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/milestone/1 as completed

closed