GitLab GitLab Group Kickoffs - Enablement:Search, 13 Mar 2023

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From YouTube: Global Search - 15.11 Kickoff

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Learn more about what the Global Search team is working on in 15.11. Planning issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/search-team/team-tasks/-/issues/133

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Hello, everyone and thank you for joining us for the global search, 15.11 kickoff call I'm joined by CZ, who is our illustrious engineering manager for our Global Search Group who'll, be helping to kick things off and explain what we're working on um and without that, let's jump into our planning issue and we'll talk in more detail here. I'll go ahead and cover the features and then CZ will go through and cover the maintenance and bugs so the first one that we're working on here in the future side is We are continuing.

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Our efforts to support the MVC deployment of Zoot Suit is our new code search solution that we are moving towards away from elastic to ensure that we can provide a result, reliable and complete search results across project within gitlab, so very excited about this and we'll make a key Improvement to our code search solution. We are working towards the NVC, as I mentioned, which is to enable this on some very small, very selective projects that are public. While we go work on some more of the authentication and private project support.

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This will allow us to get the user experience. Correct and get the initial integration going before working on some of the Yeah, the more complex authentication and things like that and rights controls. So that's what we're working on here and you can see. We've actually made quite a lot of progress here. Most of the work is actually you know closed, and we are working on a couple last items here to continue to bring this to fruition on the NPC, so very exciting progress.

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Overall on this effort, we are also continuing to move towards the support for our new navigation. This is a broader effort that a number of groups across gitlab are working on to have an improved.

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What the team is calling colloquially a super sidebar, and so this will allow a much improved user experience in moving between git lab projects and groups, and we, of course want the search functionality to also snap into the sidebar as you'd expect, so we're working on that more broadly, but in particular on this one, we are working for our team on um making sure that these scope menus or where or what set of projects and groups you are searching from uh correctly.

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It shows in the menu, in the left, hand uh the new sidebar, once you click the search option, so we're working on this now and that will overall uh be visible once we have our new navigation functionality available in for an opt-in beta which we're hoping to have in the next couple of milestones, so stay tuned there. If you're curious from there, we are continuing the work of supporting group level Wiki in advanced search and then we're also working to align in more detail with the command palette. Work that we are working on.

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This will allow you to more easily jump around between gitlab projects and functionality and having it integrated with global search will be great to allow you to quickly search and other access, other kinds of items, and so this is uh pretty early stages for the command palette. We want to go ahead and make sure that we have alignment with the team and who's implementing this, and we have a path forward on how Global search can help. So with that.

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That's the feature, functionality that we're working on here for pitching 11 and I'll pass it over to CZ. To take us through on maintenance, you can go ahead and share your screen and drive. Okay. uh Thank.

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Hi everyone, I'm CT I'm, the engineer manager of the global search team, uh the next I'm going um to walk you through the maintenance work that we planned for a GitHub 1511 release. So uh the first one uh is the work about periodically repair the project. If we've felt some data is amazing, we already started this work.

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uh The first reason that we are targeting is to uh having the law have the logs in place so that we can have some real data to tell us how often this project will run and the whole Market impact. It will add to the GitHub infrastructure, so we hope to catch. The first iteration uh continue in 1511..

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um The uh next uh work that we planned, perfect 11, is to implement a index partitioning mechanism to continue scale, our advanced search, so the new uh partitioning architecture Will based on group and projects. We hope by doing this, will improve our group level search in Atlanta feature the first Innovation we are going to do with the note index. That will prove our concept, then we'll throw this out eventually to all the investors for advanced search.

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Will also be looking at optimizing other project search right now, all the projects index data is in a be our Beekman index, which costs some like slow searches for the projects. So we are going to separate the project data of the main index into its own index in order to speed up the project search other than this. We're also trying to maybe move some of the existing feature. Flags that existed in that search, that's fundaments, and also for boxes. We have planned a few bug, physics for 1511.

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We hope to continue to tighten our loser and and improve our user experience by fixing those packs, uh Josh I, think that's all from my side.

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Great thanks, CZ and thanks everyone else for uh touching what we're working on in 1511.. As always, please leave feedback on the issues if you have any we're working on. These are public issues, and let us know what you think and if nothing else we'll see you next month or talking about 16.0 our next new major release thanks everyone.

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