Feedback Issue: Teams & Projects 💬

[gtsiolis]

Objective

The aim of this issue is to gather feedback on the Teams & Projects feature to be released in August October 2021. Any feedback is welcome! See also relevant blog post[1] and changelog entry[2].

Background

The upcoming Teams & Projects feature aims to 🅰️ surface Prebuilds in the dashboard by allowing users to add repositories as Projects to their account grouped inside Teams as well as 🅱️ introduce an onboarding flow to help users get a well-configured, prebuilt, ready-to-code dev environment for their project.

See relevant roadmap item. 🗺️

See also 🧑‍🚀 crew: teams and projects label and relevant project in the issue tracker. 🍁

Cc @jankeromnes @AlexTugarev @jakobhero @JohannesLandgraf @svenefftinge

Feedback

Any feedback is welcome but we're primarily looking for the following types of feedback:

1. How could this new feature be improved? 💡
2. What didn’t work as you expected it to? 💭
3. What do you like best about this new feature? 🧡

Feel free to send in any comments, thoughts, emojis, screenshots, or screencasts as well as open any new separate issues with a concrete problem statement for further discussion. 💬

[Grunet]

It was a little awkward to have to create a team for myself just to get to setting up a prebuild for a repo (or maybe I missed how to skip that?).

It also wasn't immediately clear to me how the prebuilds would work by branch, nor is it still (though I feel like if I look in the docs that may be mentioned somewhere?) . Actually nvm I found the Branches page...

Can't say I noticed the performance difference on my first try opening a workspace, but I know a few months ago the prebuild would've probably saved me 20+ minutes after opening a workspace, so I'm super pumped to try it out more.

[iQQBot]

@Grunet use prebuild not need team

You can visit https://www.gitpod.io/docs/prebuilds for documents

[gtsiolis]

It was a little awkward to have to create a team for myself just to get to setting up a prebuild for a repo ...

@Grunet you can also add repositories as a projects under your personal account. No need to create a separate team for that unless you're interested in inviting and giving access to the project for other collaborators. Cc @iQQBot

[Grunet]

@Grunet use prebuild not need team

You can visit https://www.gitpod.io/docs/prebuilds for documents

Ahh I see. I may've been confused/too excited reading through the email I got about it, and naively followed the new onboarding workflow thinking it was the only way to get there. Thank you both for clearing that up!

[cjensenius]

I would love to see the ability to share or transfer ownership of a workspace between team members. Launching a new workspace based on the existing feature branch works well, but sometimes there are other supporting elements that have been setup that are easier to just hand off. We currently share the workspace, but it's not ideal because the non-owner cannot launch the workspace if it is stopped.

[AlexTugarev]

@cjensenius it sounds like you would like to share snapshots as they would actually capture a state of your workspace's artifacts, see https://www.gitpod.io/docs/sharing-and-collaboration#sharing-snapshots.

[cjensenius]

Thanks @AlexTugarev! I took a look and it seems just like what I'm looking for. I ran into an issue when I attempted to use it this morning and will file a proper bug report

Looks like the issue is already solved: #5862

[hjvvoorthuijsen]

We run a self-hosted instance of Gitlab. I can't seem to find a way to add a project for that git instance, only gitlab.com and github.com are shown.

I really love the project dashboard 👏 so it would be great if I can add projects from our self hosted gitlab instance.