Fix inability to easily identify Month commits are made in the Repository Graph interface.
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Who will use this solution?
- Parker (Product Manager)
- Delaney (Development Team Lead)
- Presley (Product Designer)
- Sasha (Software Developer)
- Priyanka (Platform Engineer)
- Sidney (Systems Administrator)
- Rachel (Release Manager)
- Simone (Software Engineer in Test)
- Allison (Application Ops)
- Ingrid (Infrastructure Operator)
- Dakota (Application Development Director)
- Dana (Data Analyst)
- Eddie (Content Editor)
- Amy (Application Security Engineer)
- Isaac (Infrastructure Engineer)
- Alex (Security Operations Engineer)
- Cameron (Compliance Manager)
What problem do they have?
Reviewing the Repository Graph with many commits within a single month wastes time scrolling up/down to find the month
When do they have the problem?
All busy repositories
Where in the app do they have the problem and at what frequency (if known)?
The Repository Graph page of any busy repository.
Why will a design help them?
Busy repositories have hundreds or even thousands of commits in one month. It's difficult to identify the month when scrolling through the view as it's only placed once in a table column in the middle of however many commits were in each month.
What is the JTBD and/or Tasks?
Adjust the template for rendering the Repository graph to include the Month on each date line. It may not look as nice but it's WAY more functional which should be more important than aesthetics for a technical tool like Gitlab.
Is this problem supported by user research (please link relevant research issue/s)?
What month am I on.. thinking.. do I need to scroll up or down to figure it out... thinking.. which way is toward the middle of the column.. ooops I got it wrong.. now i have to find my commit and scroll the other way.. oh ok.. there it is.. repeat..
Known technical constraints
None likely just making each row include the month and day.
How does this help the business?
Not wasting time identifying a commit date in the repository graph view.