Asherah Connor
@kivikakk
Hi! Here you can find a summary of what I'm working on and what I'm tracking, generated regularly from my Pipa Index. For more information, read below!
Last updated 2025-12-11 20:47:34 UTC
Open entries (43)
| Title | Status | Last updated | Age | URLs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parse checkboxes in Markdown tables | somewhat blocked on Remove deckar01-task_list gem dependency |
16h ago | 65d |
Draft: Parse checkboxes in Markdown tables Parse checkboxes in Markdown tables Update to Comrak 0.49.0, add data-checkbox-sourcepos Add tasklist_in_table support; add specs tasklist_in_table: parse a tasklist item if it's the only content of a table cell. |
| Trainee Maintainer: Asherah Connor (GitLab) | tracking issue | 17h ago | 3d | Trainee Maintainer: Asherah Connor (GitLab) |
| Ratchet for use of html_escape_once/escape_once (in app *and* specs) | watch CI |
17h ago | 23d |
Ratchet for manual HTML generation, use of html_escape_once/escape_once (in app *and* specs) Add lint against adding uses of html_escape_once |
| Allow iframe embeds in markdown from allowed src domains | wait to see if costel wants to say anything |
17h ago | 70d |
Push iframe feature flag to frontend based on project/group, and support asset proxy adjustments IFrame embedding does not work Allow iframe embeds in markdown from allowed src domains Add Banzai filter for detecting potential `iframes` Draft: Render an iframe on the frontend Figma Live Embed GitLab integration |
| TOC (Table of Contents) tags should not be rendered in markdown preview or RTE for comments | blocked on approvals |
19h ago | 70d |
Don't render TOC in note previews or RTE, and remove option to add from RTE TOC (Table of Contents) tags should not be rendered in markdown preview or RTE for comments Table of Content [[_TOC_]] in issue comments not rendered Feature Request: Render Table of Contents for markdown in Issue Comments |
| documentation/Dangerfile fights with you over ~type::maintenance | Danger/TW issue; need to find a DRI | 21h ago | 17d | documentation/Dangerfile fights with you over ~type::maintenance |
| Remove deckar01-task_list gem dependency | out for maint |
21h ago | 17d |
Remove deckar01-task_list Remove deckar01-task_list gem dependency |
| Stop stripping HTML from work item titles | 1 day ago | 9d | Stop stripping HTML from work item titles | |
| Nokogiri: [bug] Top-level text nodes returned by replace don't correspond to those inserted in the document. | wait for nokogiri reply | 2 days ago | 52d |
fix: XML::Node#replace returns all nodes reparented Draft: Simplify complicated node replacement logic [bug] Top-level text nodes returned by replace don't correspond to those inserted in the document. |
| Draft: Heading Anchor Link Improvements | release post entry for Heading anchor links aren't announced correctly by screen reader | 2 days ago | 2d | Draft: Heading Anchor Link Improvements |
| Snippet comments don't appear to render front-end GFM | easy frontend fix | 3 days ago | 8d | Snippet comments don't appear to render front-end GFM |
| Add Toggle disable option to task context menu | being reworked by someone else | 6 days ago | 62d | Add disable and enable list item option to task context menu |
| Toggling an issue task item checkbox updates the whole description, possibly reverting other changes | 6 days ago | 13d | Toggling an issue task item checkbox updates the whole description, possibly reverting other changes | |
| TOC (Table of Contents) tags should not be rendered in emailed comment notifications | 6 days ago | 17d | TOC (Table of Contents) tags should not be rendered in emailed comment notifications | |
| Add current_ref placeholder for markdown documentation | contrib MR adding a placeholder | 2025-12-03 02:04 | 8d | Add current_ref placeholder for markdown documentation |
| Markdown inline input rules not not working correctly | contributor MR forthcoming? | 2025-12-03 01:19 | 8d | Markdown inline input rules not not working correctly |
| Refactor stub_asset_proxy_setting uses in specs to be less error-prone | simple refactor | 2025-12-02 06:06 | 9d | Refactor stub_asset_proxy_setting uses in specs to be less error-prone |
| Add syntax highlighting for Opentofu tofu files | watch for new Rouge version | 2025-12-02 00:00 | 70d |
Add syntax highlighting for Opentofu tofu files Support .tofu for Terraform lexing |
| Enable Kroki diagrams on gitlab.com | 2025-11-27 02:02 | 14d | Enable Kroki diagrams on gitlab.com | |
| Add support for Typograms; anything re: Kroki | backlog | 2025-11-27 01:45 | 70d |
Add support for Typograms as a diagram type in GitLab Flavoured Markdown Enable Kroki to support more Markdown diagram formats Wavedrom |
| Prevent markdown version changes from impacting GitLab.com DB | closed issue; worth revisiting | 2025-11-24 02:09 | 17d | Prevent markdown version changes from impacting GitLab.com DB |
| Rich Text Editor in Single-file Editor | 2025-11-20 00:02 | 21d | Rich Text Editor in Single-file Editor | |
| Allow math blocks to use global Katex macros | feature request | 2025-11-13 03:16 | 28d | Allow math blocks to use global Katex macros |
| Quarantine a flaky test | test of gfm autocomplete of wiki pages flakey; repro flake on VM? | 2025-11-06 03:18 | 45d | Quarantine a flaky test |
| Update mermaid to 11.4.1 | awaiting movement on the upstream PR | 2025-10-28 03:18 | 70d |
Update mermaid to 11.4.1 Upstream Mermaid 11 has backwards compatibility issues with Mermaid 10 fix: Node and edge labels should only render as markdown if properly delimited |
| Port GLQL to TypeScript | 2025-10-21 04:41 | 51d | Port GLQL to TypeScript | |
| Render non-block (Markdown and/or HTML) markup inside snippet titles. | suggestion | 2025-10-20 00:17 | 52d |
Render non-block (Markdown and/or HTML) markup inside snippet titles. Frontend : have issue/merge request title handled `code line`s, _italic_, **bold** |
| Better preview of transparent graphics | on roadmap | 2025-10-15 00:25 | 57d | Better preview of transparent graphics |
| Video snapshot instead of download when page open | on roadmap | 2025-10-14 23:39 | 57d | Video snapshot instead of download when page open |
| Make list controls usable in all GLFM contexts | to be prioritised | 2025-10-10 01:50 | 62d | Make list controls usable in all GLFM contexts |
| Asciidoctor does not work with Ruby 3.4 | unlikely to change? | 2025-10-08 01:41 | 64d |
Asciidoctor does not work with Ruby 3.4 [Markdown] Ruby 3.3/3.4 Gem Compatibility Review |
| Consider consistent header anchors | 2025-10-06 23:45 | 65d | Consider consistent header anchors | |
| Feat/text and image alignment in glfm | waiting on contributor | 2025-10-06 23:44 | 70d |
Draft: Feat/text and image alignment in glfm Add Text and Image Alignment to GitLab-Flavored MarkDown |
| Migrate EmojiFilter to use native support | to investigate | 2025-10-06 23:43 | 65d | Migrate EmojiFilter to use native support |
| Link over-zealously escape rich editor | waiting on contrib; MR looking good, asked for some more specs | 2025-10-06 02:41 | 70d |
Resolve "Link over-zealously escape rich editor" Draft: Add canonical-src |
| Remove use of commonmarker gem for import | nice-to-have | 2025-10-03 01:15 | 70d |
Remove use of commonmarker gem for import Add back commonmarker Remove CMARK_ENGINE used in older markdown rendering |
| Plain / Rich text editor full screen enhancements | draft to return to | 2025-10-03 01:06 | 70d | Draft: Plain / Rich text editor full screen enhancements |
| Enable JSON charts in markdown (GLFM) | too eager; basis for future work | 2025-10-02 07:24 | 70d | Draft: Enable JSON charts in markdown (GLFM) |
| PoC - Markdown grid table syntax based on the Pandoc syntax | customer-written Banzai filter; pre-processing Markdown in Ruby; wait for customer | 2025-10-02 07:24 | 70d |
Draft: PoC - Markdown grid table syntax based on the Pandoc syntax Possibility to use a structured table format inside markdown (Complex Table / Grid Table) |
| Emojis in issue title are not rendered in issues list |
waiting on contributor | 2025-10-02 04:48 | 70d | Emojis in issue title are not rendered in issues list |
| Indent/unindent in plain text editor is unusable on certain international keyboard layouts | in discussion | 2025-10-02 04:42 | 70d | Indent/unindent in plain text editor is unusable on certain international keyboard layouts |
| Project and branch variables for markdown | tracking issue; in prod | 2025-10-02 04:42 | 70d | Project and branch variables for markdown |
| [FF] `markdown_placeholders` -- enable markdown placeholder replacements | FF rollout issue | 2025-10-02 04:41 | 70d | [FF] `markdown_placeholders` -- enable markdown placeholder replacements |
Entries closed in FY2026Q4 (27)
| Title | Status | Closed | Age | URLs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 2025-12-04 12:58 UTC - `gitlab-org/gitlab` broken `master` with gdk-update | unsolved, may recur, completely out of scope | 19h ago | 5d | Thursday 2025-12-04 12:58 UTC - `gitlab-org/gitlab` broken `master` with gdk-update |
| kivikakk: Add domain expertise, swap reviewer for trainee maintainer | done | 21h ago | 2d | kivikakk: Add domain expertise, swap reviewer for trainee maintainer |
| Update cng-mirror digest to 5194331 | master broken, watching | 1 day ago | 0d | Update cng-mirror digest to 5194331 |
| Backport of 'Use Rust parser for tasklist parsing' | merged! | 3 days ago | 4d | Backport of 'Use Rust parser for tasklist parsing' |
| Allow use of external Mermaid (and possibly other diagram types) via Kroki | merged! | 6 days ago | 8d |
Allow Kroki companion server for Mermaid Allow use of external Mermaid (and possibly other diagram types) via Kroki |
| Fix master broken | watched | 6 days ago | 1d | Fix master broken |
| Add kivikakk as backend reviewer | merged | 6 days ago | 2d | Add kivikakk as backend reviewer |
| Enable content embeds in Markdown on GitLab.com | CR executed! | 6 days ago | 8d | Enable content embeds in Markdown on GitLab.com |
| Is `<task-button>` still required in task lists? | merged! | 6 days ago | 10d |
Is `<task-button>` still required in task lists? Remove `<task-button>` in task list items |
| Gitlab::Diff::Position is redefined on hot reload, causing its definition in `yaml_column_permitted_classes` to be out-of-date | merged! | 2025-12-04 00:45 | 2d |
Gitlab::Diff::Position is redefined on hot reload, causing its definition in `yaml_column_permitted_classes` to be out-of-date Reset permitted YAML column classes during to_prepare |
| Epic references are looking a little funny sometimes | WONTFIX, intentional | 2025-12-01 05:08 | 24d | Epic references are looking a little funny sometimes |
| Task lists not rendering consistently? Task list events being generated spuriously? | nope, just timeouts and sending back the whole description for task list updates | 2025-11-28 03:06 | 0d | Task lists not rendering consistently? Task list events being generated spuriously? |
| Use native task list parsing code (comrak), and supporting non-breaking spaces | merged! | 2025-11-27 01:27 | 55d |
Use Rust-based parser for tasklist parsing Use native task list parsing code (comrak), and supporting non-breaking spaces tasklists: don't munge first byte into unicode codepoint. Adapt tasklist formatter for Unicode whitespace Rename glfm_markdown entrypoint to gitlab-glfm-markdown and publish 0.0.39 |
| Gitlab wiki hides front matter when editing page and removes it on update | merged! | 2025-11-26 04:52 | 14d |
FrontMatterParser should strip only *one* frontmatter, and adjust BACKSLASH_R Gitlab wiki hides front matter when editing page and removes it on update |
| Heading anchor links aren't announced correctly by screen reader | deployed!! | 2025-11-26 00:35 | 54d |
Resolve "Heading anchor links aren't announced correctly by screen reader" Heading anchor links aren't announced correctly by screen reader Rework anchors for accessibility. Heading anchor links aren't announced correctly by screen reader |
| 18.6 release post and What's New | out! | 2025-11-21 02:55 | 2d |
Draft: What's New MR for 18.6 Release post - GitLab 18.6 |
| Fix hot-reload on Rails 7.2 with full path to ConnectionProxy | fixed! | 2025-11-20 13:08 | 0d | Fix hot-reload on Rails 7.2 with full path to ConnectionProxy |
| Proposal: Propagate test failure status to shell in predictive | merged | 2025-11-19 06:29 | 2d | Draft: Proposal: Propagate test failure status to shell in predictive |
| JSON table fails to display Unicode/emoji characters after upgrade to 17.11.4 | fixed live! | 2025-11-18 00:36 | 42d |
Permit gl-emoji's necessary attributes in dompurify JSON table fails to display Unicode/emoji characters after upgrade to 17.11.4 |
| Fix accidental promotion of label content to HTML and text/HTML confusion in unscoped/scoped labels | merged! | 2025-11-14 03:20 | 8d | Fix accidental promotion of label content to HTML and text/HTML confusion in unscoped/scoped labels |
| Propagate release post issue failures to CI, but allow failure | merged | 2025-11-14 03:18 | 2d | Propagate release post issue failures to CI, but allow failure |
| Add whats new generator | reviewed! | 2025-11-11 00:09 | 11d | Add whats new generator |
| Stop unescaping HTML in BaseLabel#title=, #description=, Timebox#title= | merged | 2025-11-07 05:33 | 31d | Stop unescaping HTML in BaseLabel#title=, #description=, Timebox#title= |
| Activity comments about changing title incorrectly interpret markdown and html tags | WONTFIX; no XSS, no longer producable, only pre-work item view style breakage | 2025-11-07 01:51 | 17d | Activity comments about changing title incorrectly interpret markdown and html tags |
| fix: Epic and Issue board emoji render | contributor change merged | 2025-11-06 03:17 | 15d | fix: Epic and Issue board emoji render |
| Roll back 0b0b006 | rolled back | 2025-11-05 03:37 | 33d | Roll back 0b0b006 |
| chore: let README example work first try | merged | 2025-11-05 03:36 | 14d | chore: let README example work first try |
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Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Knowledge at GitLab
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