GitLab Create Editor Group, 15 Apr 2021

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From YouTube: GitLab 13.12 Kickoff - Create:Editor

Description

Overview of what's planned for the Create:Editor group in 13.12.

Planning issue here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/create-stage/-/issues/12833

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Hello: everyone, my name, is eric shorter and I'm the product manager for the editor group, which is part of the create stage of the devops lifecycle here at gitlab, and I wanted to talk you through what we have planned for the 13.12 milestone.

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This is another one where we'll be carrying over some work, that we've been doing for the settings and navigation category, so I'll highlight that again share some specifics and then there's one other thing I want to talk to you about, but the full list of what we're working on is on our release, board and I'll link. This planning issue in the youtube video below in the description so feel free to jump into any issues and ask questions or leave feedback. I'd love to hear it.

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So our three main goals for the um 14-0 release have been to build a mvc for our content, editor in the wiki. So this is a rich text. Wysiwyg editor that'll be in the wiki to start, but we're hopeful that we can extend it to all markdown editing experiences across gitlab. Our mvc is really focused on providing the the basics of editing and formatting markdown using the common mark spec and then we'll be iterating towards applying full support for the gitlab flavored markdown extension. So we're well on our way.

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There we're hopeful that by 14 0 we'll have this mvc in place and be able to demo it and start getting some live feedback.

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The second main theme for 14.0 has been to work on simplifying the global navigation right now. The projects, groups and more drop-downs contain a lot of functionality, we're going to consolidate those into a single menu, as you can see here in these screenshots, where they will be a little more discoverable and a little more accessible.

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There's some styling updates and some functionality in there that it's gonna make it a lot easier to navigate around projects so very excited about this and we're working on bringing this for 14 0., we'll continue plugging away at it in 1312, but it'll be behind a feature flag, so you, you won't see it until 14 0..

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Similarly, the left sidebar, both the projects and group level, can be a little overwhelming and dense. So we have some updated styles for the left sidebar, as well as some information architecture, changes uh ungrouping some of the larger categories and making multiple top level sections as well as shuffling some things around. This epic is also targeted for 14.00 and we are working behind a feature flag.

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So that's when you'll see it in the product, but we've got an updated styling um we're simplifying some of the interactions and click targets to make it a little easier to navigate and um and making it a little more uh friendly from a backend perspective where the the code will be something that is a little less fragile for making changes in the future.

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Similarly, and something I haven't highlighted before about the left hand, navigation is in the settings section of the left hand now for the project. One thing we're looking to do is: pull the merge request settings out of the general section and give it its own top level. Merge, request settings view, and so you can look for that in the refactor when we ship it in 14.0 and last, a small but important wiki update. So when we added group level wikis, we did not add the the option to disable them at the group level.

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So we're going to introduce a new setting in the group settings to disable wiki and just to be very specific here. It disables the group level wiki, not wikis, for all the groups underneath or all the projects underneath that group, so you still maintain control over those individually within the project, but right now um there is no ability to disable the group level wiki, and this would introduce that that capability that should be coming in 1312 we're not building that one behind a feature flag. So look for that in the release post.

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That's all I wanted to highlight for this release. As I said, our planning issues linked in the description so feel free to jump in and ask any questions and I'll see you next month. Thanks a lot.