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Foundations helps enterprise customers setup and adopt GitLab quickly, efficiently and securely.
The Foundations Stage is at the core of the GitLab platform. It is a glue that spans across different stages and enables our customers to setup and adopt GitLab by providing a frictionless Import experience to bring your applications into GitLab, Integrations with your ecosystem and an intuitive and effective Navigation system.
The Foundations stage is made up of four groups. You can find the direction pages of these groups here:
The existing team members for the Foundations Stage can be found under the links below:
Aligning with Core Platform section theme "GitLab is easy to deploy and adopt", the foundations stage will aim to drive adoption of GitLab through a faster & smoother onboarding process. Our onboarding process will support our customers needs for lower downtime & improved reliability of importers. This will increase number of customers who onboard to GitLab as well as reduce the time it takes to onboard, increasing overall adoption of GitLab.
`- We will prioritize enhancing the experience for enterprise customers by developing tools that improve business continuity, reduce downtime, provide easy-to-understand error messages, and ensure reliable data migration. For instance, "Import Evaluation Tool" can be run before the migration and will help customers understand how long will migration take, what can and cannot be migrated, and possibly even suggest "migration waves" to break down a huge import into several chunks. This feature in combination with faster import reduces the downtime and allows flexibility to work through migration in off-hours improving business continuity
Typically, an enterprise will have a security team, DevOps teams, and an internal compliance officer. They collectively try to understand how the product in the organization is being delivered and have manual processes to examine compliance. By automating some of these tasks, we can accelerate the time to delivery for our customers and reduce the cost of compliance. For instance, security standards & best practices defined at project, group or organization level could be applied automatically to detect if the code merged is compliant or not. Additional security measures could be applied to prevent the branch from being merged if a certain level of compliance is not met. This DevOps automation could be applied to organization-specific, industry-specific ( e.g. PCI-DSS), or government-related ( e.g. GDPR ) regulations to increase operational efficiency and bake in security as part of the development lifecycle.
The Foundations stage is uniquely positioned to minimize the time it takes for our customers to deliver throughout the DevSecOps life cycle. We will help our customers deliver faster by
This theme is directly aligned with "World Class DevSecOps experience". The foundations stage spans across different stages of the DevSecOps lifecycle. Our goal is to improve the overall user experience by improving the usability & accessibility of GitLab with our continued efforts on design system adoption & new and improved navigation. We will continue to make it easier for our users to find what they are looking for, to pick up where they left off, and to orient them in GitLab. For instance, If you're a System Admin who updates MR settings annually (such as merging only on a successful pipeline or with approval from 2+ reviewers), we aim to simplify the process. No need to recall previous actions or sift through notes.
In three years, we expect :
In 2024, we are focused on two main areas:
Ability to migrate projects by direct transfer was released as Beta (available to everyone) in GitLab 15.8.
The Personal productivity team will continue to build cross-stage UIs and user workflows that should be consistent, clearly designed, and iterated on like a feature to improve the overall user experience of GitLab. In rest of the FY24 and FY25, we will work on
GitLab identifies who our DevSecOps application is built for utilizing the following categorization. We list our view of who we will support when in priority order.
Manage uses Stage MAU as a primary measure of success. This represents the unique number of users getting value from the stage; all groups should be able to contribute to improving this number.
Individual groups track progress against a number of group-specific performance indicators All links are to the internal handbook:
| Group | Dashboard URL |
|---|---|
| Import | MAU importing |
| Integrations | GMAU - MAU for Jira and Slack Integrations |
| Personal productivity | Percentage views on New Nav vs. Old Nav |
Manage operates under GitLab's values, but is a stage that seeks to particularly excel in certain areas that support our goals above. We seek to be leaders at GitLab by:
There are a few product categories that are critical for success here; each one is intended to represent what you might find as an entire product out in the market. We want our single application to solve the important problems solved by other tools in this space - if you see an opportunity where we can deliver a specific solution that would be enough for you to switch over to GitLab, please reach out to the PM for this stage and let us know.
Each of these categories has a designated level of maturity; you can read more about our category maturity model to help you decide which categories you want to start using and when.
Import existing work into GitLab from a wide variety of sources.
Priority: high • Documentation • Direction
Support for crowd-sourced internationalization of GitLab.
Priority: low • Documentation • Direction
Web and email notifications
How users move through the product
How users configure product features.
Improve and maintain the features, style, and build process for the GitLab Documentation website.
Priority: medium • Documentation • Direction
GitLab offers a REST and GraphQL API to give customers options on how to best integrate with GitLab.
Integrations are places where the GitLab product connects to features and services from other products. These integrations seek to offer our customers a seamless experience between these products, and range from lightweight features like Slack notifications for projects, to deep and complex integrations with Atlassian JIRA that connect a wide array of functionality throughout the GitLab product. This category is at the "viable" level of maturity.
Webhooks are a generic way for projects to be integrated with any other service. GitLab's Webhooks proactively send data to another service when certain events happen. These are increasingly important for external vendors, as they offer a key way to integrate with GitLab that doesn't require them building inside our codebase.
GitLab's design system called Pajamas. Used internally to power GitLab in order to improve user interface consistency and accessibility.
The Foundations stage has several features that enable users to quickly get started with using GitLab. These features are available in Core and are Free. However, as we move into specific use-cases for Enterprise customers that need to manage their GitLab organization at scale, features will be introduced into paid tiers as well and are intended to drive company-level financial goals.
Full list of features by tier under Foundations stage are here
There are a number of other issues that we've identified as being interesting that we are potentially thinking about, but do not currently have planned by setting a milestone for delivery. Some are good ideas we want to do, but don't yet know when; some we may never get around to, some may be replaced by another idea, and some are just waiting for that right spark of inspiration to turn them into something special.
Remember that at GitLab, everyone can contribute! This is one of our fundamental values and something we truly believe in, so if you have feedback on any of these items you're more than welcome to jump into the discussion. Our vision and product are truly something we build together!
Last Updated: 2024-01-03