GitLab Digital Experience, 11 Jan 2021

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From YouTube: CMS Spring 004 Planning Video

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Digital Experience team discusses release items for CMS Spring 004 (Migration + Refinement)

A

Hello, um we've got our cms sprint team here, uh we're gonna go over um our sprint, our next sprint, which is sprint number four we're calling it migration and refinement. It's not a very exciting or clever name, but it's exactly what we're doing um I'm going to share my screen here. um Second share my screen: okay, I think we can see the document now all right. uh So um let's go for what we can accomplish. First, uh I'm gonna kick it over to lauren to go over some uh engineering stuff.

B

All right in this sprint we're going to do lots of migration. um The first thing we're going to do is for refinement.

B

We need to engineer um a way for our child topic pages to be edited in netlify cms and there's about 23 child topic pages, um but we're only going to tackle one and we're going to figure out how that's going to going to work and then we're going to continue migrating.

B

Our, I think, about 12 parent topic pages over to the new template.

B

To start me and tyler are going to do a working session where we're gonna record how this gets done with one page, we gotta migrate the content over to a data file and then apply the new template and then that'll get shared with our digital experience, team and everyone's gonna chip in and take a page and migrate it over.

B

So there will be about 13 separate, mrs for all of that work and.

B

Another thing for engineering we're going to continue monitoring the infrastructure issue where they're creating a oauth application in our gitlab instance, once that's completed, we'll be able to turn on netlify cms on our about.getlab.com url, we'll pass it over to sammy for our front end.

B

Refinements, I think you're, muted, sammy sorry.

C

Thanks lauren, so for the uh for the topics pages, we have the ux design that we've been trying to push towards the uh web application to ensure that our web version looks almost exactly like our ux design. Right now, we are almost around 70 completion. So, by the end of this sprint, our topics pages is going to be looking super awesome. So that is what we're going to be doing on the topics pages.

C

Thank you. Thanks.

A

Documentation uh tyler.

D

Yeah um lauren uh alluded to the video as we do the migration. I think there's a lot of opportunity here as we get started on some of these tasks. uh Just to do some quick working sessions get some video documentation.

D

uh I volunteered to do some of the writing documentation as well, so I'll be able to sort of do that in tandem, as we do the videos and then like, as I start to get things set up on my machine field, questions from other people going through that process and take on a couple of these other tasks.

A

Thanks tyler um for ux we're going to continue to iterate on some functionality pieces, um I'm going to be adding more issues for refinements for 70 to work on. I'm also going to start reviewing the admin. The cms back-end, maybe even doing a little bit of relabeling reordering of things um and making sure that it's a friendly experience for our content team, uh also going to connect with the contact content team to let them know.

A

What's going on with the pages that are being affected, um we're going to decide on some pages that maybe we can leave behind and not tack on the cms to, and we also need to have a conversation about how we want to deal with the pages that have a stinky navigation ux.

A

um We are also uh tyler and I are going to get together and do some training videos um for how to update content in yaml and in the cms, um mostly he's going to be teaching me how to do it um and then we'll be um using those videos to train others uh and finally, uh yeah we're still, even though we're finishing up um these topic pages we're still working on the blog. um So uh where are we at with the blog uh we're going to continue to add um categories? You know.

A

I just said that it's an engineering task. I don't really know exactly what that entails. Lauren, I don't know if you want to go into more details or if that's yeah,.

B

Right now we have news blog posts, news category blog posts that are editable in netlify cms, so we'll continue adding other categories in this sprint.

A

um Great and in uh the sprint we just completed, we had released some wireframes for um how the blog will be. The blog's layout will be updated um so in this frame, we're going to apply the design system to the figma file and we'll collect feedback um with our internal team and then with the external uh team, specifically rebecca dodd, um to to get their thoughts and do some updates before we start working on the cms template updates for the blog uh yeah, it sounds like another super sprint.

A

What's going on, look at this document go team. There's gonna be a lot a lot.

B

More, mrs, which is yeah so.

B