GitLab 13.2 Release Kickoff, 17 Jun 2020

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From YouTube: GitLab 13.2 Kickoff - Create:Knowledge

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GitLab 13.2 Kickoff for Create:Knowledge Issues Mentioned:

1) Design Activity: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/33051
2) Make the Design Collection more visible in the Issue UI: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14744
3) Wiki Diffs:https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/15242
4) Wiki Confluence: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/220934/

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My name is christine dubenko and I'm, a senior PM for the knowledge group in the create stage at gate lab. This is our 13.2 kickoff. Our group works on three category level features we have the wiki design management and a new category feature called design system.

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Design system is basically going to be a storybook integration and support our pajamas design system at github, as well as our customers. If you want to read more about it, you can look at the Direction page for design system.

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In 13.2, we have three new, oh sorry, for new direction, issues and one that slipped from 13.1.

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Seeing here we could see design activity supported on project group and user pages has slipped and I'll talk about the other four individually. The first two are around design management and the second two four wiki. So, let's open up the first one make the design collection more visible in the UI. So for this one, if I scroll down here, you can see that designs are usually just the tab, nips to discussion and they're, really hidden away in terms of finding them in the UI. So what we've done with this in this release?

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Is we're actually going to move them up so that they go in line with the issue description? This gives them more visibility. They still have the same functionality, but your single source of truth designs. What the engineers actually record to build will be right there with the issue description and more discoverable. We also have a really minimal empty State for it. You can see here designs with a drag-and-drop prompt. It doesn't take up too much real estate if you're not using designs, and hopefully it just kind of flows into the layout of the issue.

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The second design issue I, have here I'm, just gonna, open it as well. This is an agate lab and figma plugin. We're really excited about this one. We actually already have an MVC working and the team is working on what it will look like in terms of submission to the figma plug-in directory, but in 13.2 we should have that shipped and available in the fake figma plug-in directory.

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The next one is wiki diff changes, and this one has a hundred and fifty up votes so and we actually have a community contribution for this.

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One they've been working at on it since 13.1, which is really cool here, is what it will look like: I'll just zoom in it's a lot like mr-s on the changes tab where you're looking at the line-by-line diffs, and so this will be available in 13.2 for wiki and last but not least, I have our wiki confluence integration, NBC, and so, if I look at this issue, essentially our customers, who are on confluence and have been on it for a really long time, would still like to use, get lab and retain all of the work they put into their confluence documentation.

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So we're in this issue we're exploring an MVC where you could link to a confluence in existing confluence instance or workspace. So you can see here in the UI for project settings and get lab right above wiki will be a new section called confluence where you could link to your confluence wiki. The first implementation of this is really basic, as we are just going to load it here into an iframe with a cleft site, confluence menu, but we'll just be exploring that functionality with the team and seeing where we could take it.

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So that's it for five Direction issues, I'm also going to just give a brief update on our group level. Wiki, as this has being worked on a lot by open MBC one. You can see. We've got five issues in 13.2. Two of those are stretched, so we may have just three that complete in 13.2, but we're still in good we're still planning to hit 13 up four for the final release, so we're still on track for that.

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Ok, I think that's it for the knowledge team. Thank you for your time and have a good 13.2 release.