GitLab GitLab Group Kickoffs - Enablement:Search, 15 Jun 2023

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From YouTube: GitLab 16.2 Kickoff - Global Search

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Planning issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/search-team/team-tasks/-/issues/146

A

Foreign, this is Josh Lambert product manager, for our Global source group and, along with me here, is CZ CZ. Do you want to introduce yourself.

B

uh Yes, uh hi I'm Susie I'm the engineering manager of the global search team. Today I'm going to work with Josh to uh introduce our planning for defax 62 release.

A

Yeah, awesome and 16.2 will be available on July 22nd, and so this is what we are planning to work on in that time period between now and then I'll go through our features and CZ will walk us through the maintenance and bugs, and so kick things off with our continuation of our efforts towards improving our code search support for those who have been paying attention to past uh videos.

A

We have been working to switch over to a new code search solution based on the open source project, and we are well underway on building out that integration and support right now our focus is on moving towards our opt-in, Beta And. There are a couple key items that we wanted to support. To do that number one is I'm going to go ahead and add a private project support.

A

This is important because a lot of our customers and users have private projects and we need to make sure we handle the authentication and also the permissions that go along with these, so that we show the appropriate results to the appropriate user. So that isn't important and ongoing.

A

There's a number of other items that also go into the opt-in Beta around just making sure we handle certain events within the product life cycle, things like handling project deletion, so that content is also deleted off of the index servers, but also, of course, triggering indexing on import of projects, handling, projecting moves and transfers, and things like that. So all help us make sure that our opt-in beta goes smoothly and we can handle the various life cycle.

A

Events that occur in the gitlab product moving over towards our broader advanced search solution, which allows you users to find and search across the entire organization and or instance, we have been working on some key improvements here as well.

A

These have already been progress from last Milestone, and so we're going to be wrapping these up here in this release, the first one will allow users to filter on issues or labels for issues, and so labels are a really common way for folks to label things and otherwise kind of like Target them and allowing users to actually facet or filter on them within the global search.

A

Experience will really help out our users and finding what they're, looking for and narrowing down that list more quickly, so looking forward to that, uh we're also having support for both group little wikis and for epics.

A

So these are now content types that you can actually search for within Global, search and last, but certainly not least, we are working to uh hide archive projects by by default, and so, if you have a lot of archived projects within your organization or your instance, sometimes these can be returned as one of the top hits, uh which is oftentimes, not what you're looking for and so by having these by default, we can turn the content that is more likely to be relevant for the user to them more easily.

A

As far as one of those top hits, and of course you can turn this back on. If you really are looking for that archive project, so looking forward to offering that to our users as well, and so with that, that is the main features. We're working on is 16.2 and I'll hand it over to CZ to take us through the maintenance uh and the bugs.

B

Thank you, Josh.

B

Hi everyone um in the 162 release uh we'll continue our efforts to make performance improvements and to address the bugs that discovered any other product for the maintenance. We'll continue the work of moving the project data to a separate Index. This is part of our over overall effort of splitting our gigantic index into smaller pieces to help improve the searching performance.

B

uh Also, we have heard the feedback from our customers about our data and acquisition framework uh we'll make improvements of this data migration framework by adding more documentations and also will also to ens how we run the migrations, for example, we'll be checking the cluster health status to decide when we want to write this job.

B

um Also in section 2 will also be cleaning up a couple of feature Flags for the bug fixes we plan to work on. First, we have the customer feedback on some of the rig tasks which are used to report. The cluster and index status will be improving the the two rig tasks, to make the clear and reduce the confusion, and also I will address the issue that that we found in the area area of switching between the default branches.

B

So we'll make sure the index will happen correctly when the default Branch switched uh other than that, I will also address a couple of issues that we found in the areas of um permission and access level checks. Those are the bug fixes we plan for the coming release. I think that's all from that side.

A

Great thanks easy and thanks again for all your great work in planning and uh organizing for this release, so appreciate it, and thank you all for watching and we are excited to bring these teachers to you and improvements and uh we'll talk to you uh next month for our 16.3 release. Thank you. Everyone thanks easy thank.

B