gitlab-ui (CSS and Reusable Components)

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• Attributes
• Business Goal
• Exit Criteria
• Roles and Responsibilities

Attributes

Property	Value
Date Created	March 26, 2019
Date Ended	July 24, 2020
Slack	#wg_gitlab-ui (only accessible from within the company)
Google Doc	gitlab-ui Working Group Agenda (only accessible from within the company)
Epic	gitlab-ui Codebase

Business Goal

Drive forward the gitlab-ui roadmap of our CSS Cleanup/Restructuring and the implementation of Reusable Components based on our design system. gitlab-ui will from now on have our base CSS implementation and all reusable components in one package to group all efforts of generic styling in one UI project. This will improve engineering productivity and consistency throughout the product. The main target of the working group is not to implement everything themselves but rather keep the effort moving across the whole frontend engineering group in a constant pace and pick up key tasks.

Exit Criteria

All to-do list items in the main Epic

Especially the following items:

• Shepherd restructuring for splitting generic CSS in GitLab UI and page specific in CE/EE by creating a utility-class library based on the design system
• Ensure utility-class library is available and usable within GitLab, ensuring the entire set of classes can be imported into Gitlab without clashes and there is documentation to guide consumers on how to use them
• Establish working group FE members as GitLab UI maintainers
• Ensure there is clear documentation written for when and how new components should be introduced into the design system and the product, including responsible counterparts
• Ensure there is clear documentation of how to implement GitLab UI components and utility classes

Roles and Responsibilities

Working Group Role	Person	Title
Facilitator	Tim Zallmann	Director of Engineering, Dev
Frontend Lead	Enrique Alcántara	Senior Frontend Engineer
Member	Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo	Senior Frontend Engineer
Member	Denys Mishunov	Senior Frontend Engineer
UX Lead	Taurie Davis	Staff Product Designer
Member	Jeremy Elder	Senior Product Designer
Executive Stakeholder	Christopher Lefelhocz	VP of Development
Member	Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt	Frontend Engineer
Member	Justin Boyson	Senior Frontend Engineer