GitLab Import Group, 3 Aug 2021

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From YouTube: Manage:Import - Direction and Roadmap

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Haris Delalić from the Import Team talks about the group's direction and roadmap.

Link: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/manage/importers/

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Hey folks!, I'm haris delalic, the product manager for the import group here at gitlab.. I would like.

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To give you a quick overview of our direction for this group, with a special focus on the roadmap,.

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Which has been recently updated. the overall mission for the import group at gitlab.

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Is to make the transition into gitlab a seamless and delightful experience.

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This includes migrations from other tools such as github and bitbucket,, as well as migrations.

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From one instance of gitlab to another., our goal is to build importers that our customers find.

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Valuable, reliable, and easy to use,, therefore removing any friction for migrating to gitlab.

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To deliver on that mission, we have set the following goals for the next 12 months:.

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First, achieve a lovable gitlab to gitlab migration, experience.

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Allow a self-managed instance to easily migrate to gitlab.com and vice versa.

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And self-service a migration of projects, groups,, users, and most other objects.

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Second, complete our github importer., we'll accomplish this by making our github importer.

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More reliable, ensuring that even the largest projects can be imported.

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And migrating all of the relevant objects, such as groups,, snippets, and members.,.

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Let's take a look at the roadmap that allows us to achieve those goals. currently,. We have a github.

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Importer that works for customers who have a small number of smaller or simpler projects.

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The gitlab migration migrates groups with subgroups. over the next six months. We want to.

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First, focus on increasing the reliability of the github importer,, after which we're going.

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To look at delivering the group migration that achieves parity with the group, export and import;.

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And also add project metadata, such as issues and comments to the group migration.

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Finally, we'll add project repositories which will round out our project migration, experience,.

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And then add the ability to migrate users, which is something that we currently are not able to do,.

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But is been requested a lot by our clients; and completing the feature which would include.

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Some ux work and the ability for users to easily get into the flow and manage large migrations.

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Once that's completed,, we'll switch the focus back to our github importer. first,.

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We'll pay attention to the ability for the importer to scale.. That means two things: one,.

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Importing extra-large projects and the other thing is the ability to import many projects.. We have.

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Customers who have thousands of different projects and managing a migration of thousand projects.

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One at a time over to gitlab is a huge task, so we need a user experience. That's gonna allow that to.

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Happen., once that's completed,, we'll focus on importing all the relevant concepts which will.

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Add all the objects that are currently not being imported to the importer.

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So we're looking to import things such as users, groups, and snippets. and finally,, we'll complete.

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The feature by paying attention to the ux and any small requests that we kind of learn all along.

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So,, this roadmap is aggressive and it requires the focus of the entire team to deliver within.

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12 months.: this means that the import group will not be able to prioritize work on other importers,.

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Outside of critical bugs during this time., this also means that we will not be able to prioritize.

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Customer-Specific work, if it's not aligned with the roadmap.. If this sounds a little drastic,.

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You're not wrong., while the cost of delivering this roadmap sounds pretty high,. The cost of.

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Not delivering it is even higher. delivering this functionality in the next 12 months will.

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Be crucial for gitlab's ability to grow and onboard an increasing number of new customers.

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So,, this is the quick overview of what's next,. What the next 12 months may look like for the.

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Import. Group.- please let me know what you think. all comments and suggestions are welcome,, as I'm.

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Always looking to improve our goals and make sure that we're focused on the right, things., thanks.,.