GitLab GitLab Group Kickoffs - Verify:Pipeline Insights, 16 Aug 2021

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From YouTube: GitLab 14.3 Kickoff - Verify:Testing

Description

Kickoff Page: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/kickoff/#verify
Ops Direction: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ops/#verify

Issues Discussed:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/238536
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/336199
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/336894
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/338285

We love feedback and you can reach me at jheimbuck@gitlab.com or mention me on GitLab.com using @jheimbuck_gl

A

Hi, I'm james hembach, the product manager for the testing group in the verify stage, git lab uh today, gina and I our product designer will be previewing work. The team will be doing in the upcoming 14-3 milestone, you'll, find a link to the 14-3 kickoff page with links to these items and the verify stage direction page with discussion of our future work in the comments below the video. You can always reach me at jheimbucketgitlab.com or through comments on these issues or any issues with the group testing label in the gitlab project.

A

So I'm going to start today by looking at our 14-3 planning issue and our top deliverables, and really our theme for the milestone is around reliability.

A

We're going to be focusing on issues that relate to the reliability of the database by assisting with some sharding work, to split up our ci builds table and to ensure the storage values are presented as accurately as possible for artifacts.

A

So a couple of our top deliverables are recalculating all artifact size, a script, to do that and then apply that through database migration to ensure properly reflecting what an artifact, how much space is taking up and then a couple of internal artifact issues or starting issues more breaking apart. That database table moving queries around making it more performant and scalable. So as we continue to scale gitlab.com, it stays a nice um speedy and performant application for folks to work on.

A

So that is the gist of what we're working on in 14-3. This reliability theme carries over from 14-2 and will continue to carry over so at this time we're choosing to pause work on the project. Quality summary that we've talked about previously, as well as some other customer-facing improvements for a couple. More milestones. Our friend and folks are going to be working continually on usability things and I'm going to hand it over to gina to talk through those themes.

B

Thanks james, so there is an ongoing okr, that's shared between product and ux, where we're reworking the look of merge, request, widgets for better usability and consistency and ux did internal and external research previously, where we obtained insights and came up with a holistic approach of how to implement that into the various mr widgets that we have and I'm going to share an example of one of those right now.

B

So this is an example of the test summary widget, where um we have been discussing of how we can apply those insights into ideally quarter, uh q3 and q4, and there is also a working group. That's leading up this effort, which is being talked about here and they're, currently discussing how to approach the implementation of all these changes, and more updates will be coming from that group. Soon.

A

And that's all I got I'm excited about the new look and feel of the widgets. It makes it a lot easier to tell if there's actually things that are broken and it's a lot more consistent across all of them, so it should be a big improvement for users. Thanks gina awesome cool. As always, we welcome feedback through discussion on these issues. This video, where you can email me at jheimer, gitlab.com about these or other issues in the testing backlog thanks.