Merge Request Coach Lifecycle

Applying to become a Merge Request Coach

Create an MR to add "Merge Request coach" to "departments" and "expertise" sections in your team page entry (see example).
Explain your motivation in the MR body:
- Why you want to become a Merge Request Coach?
- How much time you are planning to spend on it?
- Which duties you are focusing on (e.g. triage, finish stale MRs)?
Mention @gitlab-org/coaches and assign one of them.
Once accepted, one of the coaches with Owner permissions should add you to the @gitlab-org/coaches group.

Stepping down gracefully

If you are no longer able to serve as a Merge Request Coach, you should identify another GitLab team member to take your place so that the capacity of the remaining coaches remains the same. When you are ready to step down, you need to:

Make an announcement on the #mr-coaching Slack channel.
Update the team.yml file to remove "Merge Request Coach".
Remove yourself from the @gitlab-org/coaches group.

References/resources

Merge Request Coach responsibilities
Merge Request Coach collaboration guidelines
Gitter room for contributors: please join if you're not part of it already!

Current Merge Request Coaches

Join other 20 in the team!

Name	Location	Departments
Rémy Coutable	Albertville, France 🇫🇷	Engineering Function, Quality Department, Engineering Productivity Team, Merge Request coach, and Core Team
Jen-Shin Lin	Taipei, Taiwan 🇹🇼	Engineering Function, Quality Department, Engineering Productivity Team, and Merge Request coach
Kushal Pandya	Pune, India 🇮🇳	Engineering Function, Development Department, Dev Section, Plan:Product Planning FE Team, Frontend, and Merge Request coach
Matija Čupić	Belgrade, Serbia 🇷🇸	Engineering Function, Development Department, Ops Sub-department, Verify:Pipeline Authoring BE Team, Verify:Pipeline Authoring Group, and Merge Request coach
Mayra Cabrera	Monterrey, Mexico 🇲🇽	Engineering Function, Infrastructure Department, Delivery and Scalability Section, Delivery Team, Merge Request buddy, and Merge Request coach
Paul Slaughter	Dallas, TX, USA 🇺🇸	Engineering Function, Development Department, Dev Section, Create:Editor FE Team, Frontend, and Merge Request coach
Peter Leitzen	Bochum, Germany 🇩🇪	Engineering Function, Development Department, Ops Section, Monitor:Monitor BE Team, Monitor:Monitor, and Merge Request coach
Reuben Pereira	Goa, India 🇮🇳	Engineering Function, Development Department, Fulfillment Section, Fulfillment Purchase Team, Fulfillment:Purchase BE Team, Backend, and Merge Request coach
Patrick Bajao	Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭	Engineering Function, Development Department, Dev Section, Create:Code Review BE Team, Merge Request coach, and Create:Code Review
Kerri Miller	Seattle, WA, USA 🇺🇸	Engineering Function, Development Department, Dev Section, Create:Code Review BE Team, Merge Request coach, and Create:Code Review
Laura Montemayor	Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱	Engineering Function, Development Department, Ops Sub-department, Verify:Pipeline Authoring BE Team, Verify:Pipeline Authoring Group, and Merge Request coach
Markus Koller	Winterthur, Switzerland 🇨🇭	Engineering Function, Development Department, Dev Section, Ecosystem BE Team, Merge Request Buddy, and Merge Request coach
Steve Abrams	Highlands Ranch, CO, USA 🇺🇸	Engineering Function, Development Department, Ops Sub-department, Package Group, Package BE Team, Merge Request buddy, and Merge Request coach
Marius Bobin	Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴	Engineering Function, Development Department, Ops Sub-department, Verify:Pipeline Execution Group, Verify:Pipeline Execution BE Team, and Merge Request coach
Vitali Tatarintev	Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪	Engineering Function, Development Department, Ops Section, Monitor:Monitor BE Team, Monitor:Monitor, and Merge Request coach
Albert Salim	Singapore, Singapore 🇸🇬	Engineering Function, Quality Department, Engineering Productivity Team, and Merge Request coach
David O'Regan	Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪	Engineering Function, Development Department, Ops Section, Monitor:Monitor FE Team, Monitor:Monitor, Frontend, and Merge Request coach
Alexander Turinske	Denver, CO, USA 🇺🇸	Engineering Function, Development Department, Sec Section, Protect:Container Security FE Team, Frontend, and Merge Request coach
Terri Chu	Atlanta, GA, USA 🇺🇸	Engineering Function, Development Department, Enablement Sub-department, Global Search BE Team, and Merge Request coach
Max Woolf	Birmingham, United Kingdom 🇬🇧	Engineering Function, Development Department, Dev Section, Manage:Compliance BE Team, and Merge Request coach