Epic Work Items Migration
Stage Working Group for Epics to Work Items migration plan and status
Epics to Work Items conversion plan and status
Attributes
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Date Created | 2023-10-02 |
| Target End Date | 2024-07-12 |
| Slack | #s_plan, #f_work-item, #g_product_planning (only accessible from within the company) |
| Google Doc | Agenda (only accessible from within the company) |
| Epic | &9290 |
| Overview & Status | See Exit Criteria Progress |
Context
Plan stage is developing Work Items as a platform to build GitLab features like Issues, Epics, Tasks, etc. to be more extensible to meet product needs. This working group is focused on the migration of Epics to Work Items and provides detailed insight on individuals involved in the effort, the technical plan for the migration, as well as current status and exit criteria.
Weekly Sync
WG members meet for sync call every Thursday at 14:30 UTC to discuss the actions taken since last call as well as steps for next week, meeting is recorded and publicly shared in GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel.
Exit Criteria
Updates are being tracked in &11777 (updated every Monday).
This Working Group has the following exit criteria:
- A working Epic Work Item Type is available to all customers running the latest version of GitLab.
- The implementation does not create significant scaling or saturation risks for at least 6 months, and does not block feature development.
- A plan is in place to clean up technical debt within 6 months.
Stage 1 - Achieving Feature Parity between Epics and Work Items
| Task | Progress | DRI (group or individual) |
|---|---|---|
| Add native support for work items at group-level | 90% | Project Management |
| Add support for relating work items based on different relationship types | 100% | Product Planning |
| Add support for relating legacy issues as children to work items | 90% | Product Planning |
| Add support for cross-group hierarchies in Hierarchy widget | 100% | Product Planning |
| Start and Due date inheritance support in Work Items | 60% | Kassio Borges (BE) & Himanshu Kapoor (FE) - Knowledge |
| Roll-up statistics around children count, weight sum, and health status in Hierarchy widget | 5% | Project Management |
| Add support for Ancestor widgets |
Stage 2 - Epics data migration plan
| Task | Progress | DRI (group or individual) |
|---|---|---|
| Block widgets which will be unavailable for migrated Epics | ||
| Setup synchronization between Epics table and Work Items table in database | ||
| Setup synchronization of widgets data between Epics and Work Items along with handling change in Epic Work Item ID | ||
| Introduce Work Item Epic creation ability at Group level |
Stage 3 - Post-migration roll-out preparation
| Task | Progress |
|---|---|
| Ensure REST API interoperability with migrated Epics | |
| Determine migration strategy for unique ID and IID of migrating epics to ensure that stale reference redirect | |
| Database cleanup for stale columns and implementation logic of legacy Epics |
Roles and Responsibilities
| Working Group Role | Work Stream/Specialism(s) | Person | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facilitator & Functional Lead | Backfilling (3) | Alexandru Croitor | Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management |
| Functional Lead | Q4 Facilitator | Kushal Pandya | Fullstack Engineering Manager, Plan:Product Planning |
| Functional Lead | Feature Parity (1) | Eugenia Grieff | Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning |
| Functional Lead | Syncing (2) | Felipe Artur | Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize |
| Functional Lead | Delegation (4) | Nicolas Dular | Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning |
| Functional Lead | Create legacy epics for WI epics (5) | Mario Celi | Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management |
| Functional Lead | Customer Pilot (6) | Heinrich Lee Yu | Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management |
| Member | Kassio Borges | Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Knowledge | |
| Member | Himanshu Kapoor | Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Knowledge | |
| Member | Adam Hegyi | Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize | |
| Member | Coung Ngo | Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management | |
| Member | Florie Guibert | Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning | |
| Member | Rajan Mistry | Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning | |
| Member | Abhilash Kotte | Sr Full Stack Engineer, Plan:Product Planning | |
| Member | Donald Cook | Fullstack Engineering Manager, Plan:Project Management | |
| Member | Gabe Weaver | Senior Product Manager, Plan:Project Management | |
| Member | Amanda Rueda | Senior Product Manager, Plan:Product Planning | |
| Member | Jacki Bauer | Product Design Manager, Plan |
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