GitLab Search Team, 16 Aug 2023

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From YouTube: GitLab 16.4 Kickoff - Global Search

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Learn more about what the Global Search team is working on for 16.4.

You can also view our planning issue here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/search-team/team-tasks/-/issues/149

A

All right, hello, everyone- this is Josh Lambert product manager. Here at get lab, and today we'll be talking about the global search, 16.4, kickoff and with me is CZ. Our engineering manager sees you want to say hi.

B

Everyone I'm Susie Andrew, the manager of the global search team.

A

Yeah thanks, easy and also with me, is Ben Ben. Is our new Google search product manager I'm so excited to have you and welcome to the team tonight quickly also introduce yourself Ben.

C

Yeah, hey everybody, I'm Ben, benker I'm, the new Global search PM um coming from pravado and also sourcegraph, where I worked on code search as well so excited to be part of that project on ongoing and going forward. Yeah.

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B

A

Welcome back and and thanks uh and uh and since we will be handling these going forward and so uh look forward to hearing from them more in the future, uh but let's go ahead and dive quickly into 16.4 here and what the Google search group is working on. uh You'll see some familiar themes here for our priorities from last Milestone.

A

We have our improvements coming to code, search where we are swapping out the back end from elastic over to Zoot, which provides a a more robust code, search solution for things like regex support and uh also tends to provide more complete results. So we're very excited for this, and the two major items we're working on here is continuing our progress towards the opt-in beta. We are pretty optimistic that this will be available here.

A

This milestone for gitlab.com customers, as we've worked to roll this out and get us some support up and running I'm so excited for that. We already have this running internally for our own projects like gitlab, Dash Tom and get lab Dash work, so we've been already dog fooding it for some time and we're excited to be able to roll it out. For our initial customers, so let us know if you're interested in being part of the opt-in beta, we we also are moving on towards our starting replication work.

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uh This will allow us to both solve additional scaling, so we can introduce more and more customers to resuit, as well as also providing more resilience in the case of deployments or other potential um uh uh uh durability and challenge we might come across in production and so we're looking forward to having this deployed for those two reasons as well: real, quick on the Upton beta, we're primarily focusing on finishing up some of the uh sort of events that can occur in production when um you know things like renaming groups or moving groups, and things like that and alerting just making sure we have all those events covered prior to the opt-in Beta start now.

A

So that's our work on unzuke as we progress towards again the opt-in data here and we're excited to get that started. Moving on towards the other major project. We're working on is fighting archived projects. This is a pretty highly requested feature here where, uh as you can see from them are a thumbs up from just a month ago, um but in general right now, you're doing a search. You can actually get results that include archive projects.

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Projects that are archived are likely not to be what you're looking for, because they've likely been archived for a reason from the main UI, and so it's really not to be valid. To show these unless they're particularly looking for them and so we're now adding a toggle where you'll be able to search for archive projects if you want, but the default will be to have them hidden by default. This is already available for uh when you're searching within projects and now we're also working on rolling it out to other types as well.

A

Things like Milestones projects, wikis issues uh commits and comments, and so on. So we're working on kind of finishing the rollout of this change and we're looking forward to being able to provide you a more more relevant results by default and, as you particularly want to see those archive projects and then you can of course jump in and see them. And with that that's the key features working on here for 16.4 and I'll hand it over to CZ to take us through the maintenance and the bugs.

B

um Thank you, Josh.

B

um Other than the features that Josh cover and for 16-4, we also planned a few um maintenance and Bug fixes uh so I'm going to go over uh the the work uh we have moved our commit documents to a separate index, but we still seeing some leftovers in our main index. Welcome to clean up the leftovers in the next few days um also um will be um doing some enhancement work for our data migration framework in the 16-4 um yeah.

B

This is about to use schema versions to identify the the version of the documents in the data migration process.

B

The next one we we planned for 16-4 is about the archives projects we right now, as Josh covered the features of the of hiding archive projects. We also want to make sure if users does a search on the project level, no matter whether the in projects with archives are not archives, we make sure the results will always be returned and those are the.

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B

Work that we plan for 15-4- and we also have a few boxes- that we planned for the next release and the first one and right now users are able to filter the search result and for issues and by labels. We want to make sure whenever the labels get updated on on issues will also make sure the index will be updated and the other part we have seen from self-match customers on their AWS open search deployments. Is that sometimes, when they first create the index, the the index was not created properly.

B

We'll look into that issue in the next release, and also we have a stress goal and for the 16-4 packet like this is to look at some aggregation. This frequency uh in other search results and yeah. That's all we planned for maintenance and back Faces by fixes or 164.

A

That's easy, uh that's uh great! uh Looking forward to those uh Maine synthetics works also being available for our customers and um yeah. As always. Thank you for all your work and Ben, looking forward to you carrying this forward in the future here as well from the product management side and so I think that's it for 16.4 for for this Milestone and uh stay tuned for next milestone for Ben and CZ, letting you all know about what we're working on for 16.5 thanks. Everyone.

C