GitLab Digital Experience, 13 Jul 2023

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From YouTube: Digital Experience Retro - July 13, 2023

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A

Hi everyone uh welcome to digital experience. This is our iteration uh retro, we'll go over. What went well and things to improve on uh from the last two week period today is Thursday July 13th. uh First up for things that went well is Barker.

B

Yeah I posted it in the thanks, Channel um Carrie Menard also hearted it so that was cool um but big. Thank you to John, Megan, TMA um and Hannah. We had a big pivot on how our language selector works and how our links work on the marketing site, um we're using Dynamic links so that it would route you to the right place after you clicked on. It turns out that has bad SEO implications, so we made a pivot, so it's all static.

B

So when the page loads, all the links are static, and so, if you're on the German homepage, it's German links in the nav and German links in the um the page. If there's localized version so good job on getting that out the door. It was a big bucket of work across a lot of the projects and pass it over to Matteo.

C

Yeah, uh so this iteration I got something cool that I did. uh It was rewriting the the block repo and it now works with contentful and I was having trouble getting the transpiling there to work and Nathan was a big help there uh so yeah. Now now we have contentful there. We can start thinking on creating a template and migrating blog posts.

D

Let's hope that we can use a non-trial version next week, because I hate having to make new ones and I think you're on a trial now and I've gone through two emails. So let's hope that we get the official next week, but it's gonna be awesome.

A

uh Things to improve on I think Parker has the first point there too yeah.

B

I got I got the first one, it's a messed up on things. Yesterday we were doing a nav release and uh it also included a new Sixth Sense personalization for our nav and Megan wrote out very clear instructions on how to test it in the Mr that released it. I didn't read those instructions and went back to an old version old way of verifying it and guess what like yeah force is the personalization to show, but it it didn't actually work, and so that resulted in a bug getting shipped.

B

So that's like on me, um but just like you know, thank you Megan for writing those instructions on how to test it and then, if you're, the one reviewing it read those instructions. Like that's a note for myself, uh John.

E

Yes, I I wanted to thank Megan because after I I saw that she has like uh instructions to to test or or Mrs I started implementing uh that section so just to say it would be cool to have in the template a section only to explain how to test animal even though it's easy or not, it would be cool to have always that section and next one is.

F

Yeah sorry, I read the first thing too fast and how do I replied did not even make sense, um I think if you're talking about the personalization bug in production, I, don't think anyone would have caught that like I was testing things like super hardcore to make sure nothing was going to get through with the personalization and it's it's just happening with production. It's not happening in the review, apps locally or anything, um I think all the testing uh it worked out. But uh um thanks for the call out um next is Nathan.

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G

Really something to improve on more of just like an opportunity, there's a lot of new tech, getting added yeah in the next couple months, and so I was thinking like it's not up to any of us like it's up to all of us. To kind of you know, drive this forward and figure out how we wanna structure with the site and so I'll be curious.

G

If we'd be down to have like a I, don't know if it's a a couple times thing or just a one-off, but brainstorm like how does this integration work so I don't mind getting the ball rolling and just like I, don't know straight enough. It was called fig Jam I'm, not too sure what these tools are called, but uh it would be just cool if we're on the same page.

G

We know how things are going to integrate and then maybe we can modify it and fine tune it and have something that makes sense, because I don't want to continue like add stuff on. Then it's like Frankenstein it'll, be cool to put our heads together and figure it out.

B

Plus, plus one on that uh for sure um I know, Justin had some diagrams Vienna's corner of how this was all gonna work together and and we've been building off of those, but um now that we've we've dug in a little bit more, we have access to contentful, we kind of have an idea of what Argo is going to do.

B

um We have new information, so we might need to iterate on what those are and getting everyone's input would be. Amazing,.

F

Yeah on that note, gonna go off a little little tangent, but um one of the new tech Stacks, at least for a proof of concept I'm using like node and express it's been a while since I've done any of that, but uh some like chunking my way through, but if anyone might have some experience in that and is like cool if I can reach out to them.

F

If I have questions, that would be amazing, um but yeah I would love something like this to to have like team brainstorms on this stuff, because we don't know who's the who could be the experts on some of these uh stack items at the end of the day,.

A

Yeah I didn't add a note, but I'm also plus one that, um as we split out into multiple different repos and more tools, there are more like points of failure and things are going to break, and you know it's helpful if we're all aware of end to end how our website is functioning, you know so that we can start troubleshooting where that break might be um like it's great.

A

If Megan becomes like the Argo expert or something, but that if Megan's out and we have an Argo problem, I want all of us to kind of have an understanding of how those calls are happening and how that that that piece works and seeing with CMS and same with blog and same with all of it. um So yeah big fan of like at least uh like an end meeting or something to get everyone kind of trained up and and get some ideas going if we need brainstorming but certainly get trained on on.

A

So we're all in alignment of how these pieces are going to work together.

A

G

I can um I'll spend up. Let me delegate our calendars and see what's a good time, um and then we can decide from there if we want to work a recurring meeting or just a one-off.

G

But it seems like a seems, like people are interested, do you want to close out our YouTube channel.

A

Please, like And, subscribe, so yeah. uh Thank you, everyone and we will see you next time.