GitLab 15.9 Release Kickoff, 11 Jan 2023

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From YouTube: GitLab 15.9 - Enablement::Global Search

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Learn more about what the Global Search group is working on for our 15.9 release!

Planning issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/search-team/team-tasks/-/issues/128

A

Hi, this is Josh Lambert and CZ, uh who are I, will take everyone through the 15.9 global Search Group um I am interim product manager for the Google, Search, Group um and uh Susie. You want to introduce yourself briefly as well. Yes,.

B

uh Hi I'm Phoebe I'm the engineer manager of the global Search Group at the Gate lab happy to share the 59 planning with you.

A

Awesome so, let's jump into it here we have the 15.9 founding issue that we use to discuss what we've been working on and I'll be taking us through the features and CZ will be taking us through the rest of the work here.

A

um So the first item that we want to continue to work on is our overall user search improvements.

A

um If you've been looking at a few of the past videos, you would have noticed that we've been working on this for some time we have the index complete and now we're working on more of the UI, so we're working on adding advanced search, filtering in the coupon project for advanced search.

A

So right now, if I go into the search bar and search for myself, you can see we do have users show up here, but once I click on users, you will notice that advanced search indicator goes away, so this is currently using our basic postgres search instead, and so we want to convert this over to utilizing event, search and all of its benefits.

A

So that's what will be happening here as far as this work here so improve, improve performance and overall search, query results and then, similarly, we'll be working on taking this forward and also using that same user search index to improve the performance of Auto suggestion.

A

So, for example, when I'm in an issue and I want to comment- or at mention Dimitri, you can see, it takes some time to return, and one of the things that we want to do here with this is that, instead of leveraging postgres, we want to leverage a drastic search for this and our advanced search functionality to have a much more performant, Auto suggestion API, so I'm, particularly looking forward to this one as I think this is a very common task that a lot of folks perform and if they can speed it up and I, have a high impact.

A

Next up, we are working on removing the feature flag for filtering by language, um I believe that's uh nope, sorry we're actually adding support for filtering my language. Sorry again a little bit myself, and so you can see here uh our design and we're executing tours we're quite close here. We want to wrap up the front-end work, but really looking forward to this.

A

It's the first additional faceting option or filtering option that we have with the new Left rail navigation that we added on a couple releases ago, so looking forward to having this as the first step towards these additional filtering options um and then moving on actually towards the future product removal.

A

This is a pretty simple cleanup here, hopefully, where we uh introduce that vertical nav and we want to go ahead and actually remove the feature flag, because it's available in production it's rolled out successfully and it's all good, and so we want to go ahead and do that. Cleanup operation, we're also working on two other items here to improve some of our CLI interface and some of the rig tests that we offer I'm going to Output a little more information for debugging purposes.

A

If you call the info task and also perform re-indexing in certain conditions as well um and then, lastly, to wrap up our uh Feature work here, we are building a platform change for code search, and so we are looking at a couple other options here, as you can see from this issue, um we looked at get grab a couple, other ones and we're currently in progress with a Zoot based um POC, and so we're going ahead and continuing to take a look at that and explore what that might look like in the product and so far is actually pretty exciting.

A

We have a working POC, at least in a Dev environment where you can actually make calls against from the gitlab UI, which is pretty awesome. So um that's what we're working on here and the overall goal of this is, of course, is to improve our code search results.

A

There are now challenges with exact subscreen matching, um as well as returning multiple results, uh multiple hits and it's something in a single file, and so um we want to help, try and make sure we can solve those problems, as well as a couple other options here, as well as you can see, from our search criteria or evaluation criteria, and so with that I'll pass it over to CZ to take us through the maintenance and the bugs and the rest of the work.

B

uh Thank you, Josh, uh happy to talk through the maintenance and and back that we are trying to address for the maintenance award. uh The first one is the overall keyflab effort to migrate the drop down uh list to our new uh Javas framework, and so we'll pick up one task from our team and finish it in 159 release.

B

Yeah uh the next one is, we have done a lot of improvements in our top level search bar in previous releases, and there are some of the uh cleanup work that I have to do, for example, the feature flag. So what is done? We can also clean up the feature flag, so we are going to handle this word in the next release as well.

B

um Next one um we have to received a lot of feedback that customers reporting that um under some missing information in the index, so we had a proposal to fix this issue in 1507. We had to proposal in 57 and we plan to implement the proposal in 59..

B

uh Another work that we're going to do under maintenance is and show out the index lifecycle management work uh behind the feature flag, so the intact life cycle management work was to address scaling issues we have seen with our growing index. Currently the work is behind the feature flag. We are going to test it in next release and hopefully we'll release it uh so and another piece of Maintenance work we hope to address uh is a slacky tests, so red flag. We have a few tests.

B

Flaky tests we temporarily disabled it, um but eventually we wanted to look at those issues and address uh the problem in those tests and reasonable it to make sure the quality of a product other than the maintenance work. We are also scheduled. A few bug fixes I, probably won't go into the details by feel free to check the links were put in this planning issue.

B

uh Oh the last one I want to mention. Is we also uh planned some documentation updates? We have some feedback from our customers asking what are the permissions that required on a electric session node together with with the GitHub instance, so we are going to investigate it, and hopefully we can update our documentation to list the required permissions that that your cluster, it has a classroom news uh I think that's all.

A

Awesome thanks CZ for walking us through uh those, and uh we are really excited about the 15.9 features um and we can't wait to get them out to all of you. uh So um that's it for 15.9 stay tuned for 15.10 next month and we'll see you all, then thanks everyone. Thank you.