GitLab Administration Working Group

Attributes

Property	Value
Date Created	2023-03-01
End Date	2023-07-27
Slack	#wg_administration (only accessible from within the company)
Google Doc	Working Group Agenda
Issue Board	Administration Working Group
Epic	GitLab Administration Working Group
Overview & Status	Closed

Charter

The GitLab Administration Working Group will determine the work needed to maintain GitLab Administrator functions healthy, identify owning groups for requests, and redirect issues to corresponding groups for resolution. This group is a temporary owner for all GitLab Administrator functions until a team is funded to be a permanent owner.

Context

The maintenance and enhancement of GitLab Administration functions has been a shared responsibility among Development groups. This often triggers the same questions about shared responsibilities - who owns this and who should work on this. Before a development owning group can be identified, a working group will help us to maintain the related functions to run GitLab (the software) smoothly.

Exit Criteria

Owners of the items in the Admin Area of GitLab are identified, acknowledged, and documented in the handbook. => DONE The owner list is in the issue description, we (GitLab as a whole) will continue seeking clarification for the remaining unowned areas. Meanwhile, continue following Shared responsibility functionality for unowned areas.
Owners of things related to instance management (upgrade, backup and restore, metrics, performance) and configuration are identified, acknowledged, and documented in the handbook. => SKIPPED Didn't investigate due to other priorities.
A proposal for a new team in case there is a need for certain items of the GitLab Administrator features. There is a chance this is unnecessary if the above two items cover all features. => SKIPPED Didn't investigate due to other priorities.
A process of identifying Owners for future administration features is documented in the handbook. => DONE Updated handbook page with process of adding new admin section.

Roles and Responsibilities

Working Group Role	Person	Title
Executive Stakeholder	Christopher Lefelhocz (@clefelhocz1)	VP of Development
Facilitator/DRI	Peter Lu (@plu8)	Engineering Manager, Distribution:Deploy
Product Management DRI	Dilan Orrino (@dorrino )	Product Manager Distribution
Member	Gosia Ksionek (@mksionek)	Backend Engineer, Manage::Authentication & Authorization
Member	Christina Lohr (@lohrc)	Senior Product Manager, Data Stores::Tenant Scale
Member	Joseph Longo (@jlongo_gitlab)	Manager, Governance and Field Security
Member	Oriol Lluch Parellada (@o-lluch)	Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
Member	Hannah Sutor (@hsutor)	Senior Product Manager - Auth
Member	Falko Sieverding (@fsieverding)	Customer Success Manager, EMEA
Member	Shawn Sichak (@ssichak)	Senior Security Engineer, Trust and Safety
Member	Manuel Kraft (@manuel.kraft)	Customer Success Manager, EMEA
Member	Sean Carroll (@sean_carroll)	Engineering Manager, Create::Source Code