Roadmap (PREMIUM)

• Introduced in GitLab Ultimate 10.5.
• In GitLab 12.9, Roadmaps were moved to the Premium tier.
• In GitLab 12.9 and later, the epic bars show epics' title, progress, and completed weight percentage.
• Milestones appear in roadmaps in GitLab 12.10, and later.
• Feature flag for milestones visible in roadmaps removed in GitLab 13.0.
• In GitLab 13.2 and later, the Roadmap also shows milestones in projects in a group.
• In GitLab 13.2 and later, milestone bars can be collapsed and expanded.

Epics and milestones in a group containing a start date or due date can be visualized in a form of a timeline (that is, a Gantt chart). The Roadmap page shows the epics and milestones in a group, one of its subgroups, or a project in one of the groups.

On the epic bars, you can see the each epic's title, progress, and completed weight percentage. When you hover over an epic bar, a popover appears with the epic's title, start date, due date, and weight completed.

You can expand epics that contain child epics to show their child epics in the roadmap. You can click the chevron ({chevron-down}) next to the epic title to expand and collapse the child epics.

On top of the milestone bars, you can see their title. When you hover over a milestone bar or title, a popover appears with its title, start date, and due date. You can also click the chevron ({chevron-down}) next to the Milestones heading to toggle the list of the milestone bars.

Sort and filter the Roadmap

• Filtering roadmaps by milestone introduced in GitLab 13.7.
• Filtering roadmaps by milestone is deployed behind a feature flag, enabled by default.
• Filtering roadmaps by milestone is enabled on GitLab.com.
• Filtering roadmaps by milestone is recommended for production use.
• For GitLab self-managed instances, GitLab administrators can opt to disable it. (PREMIUM SELF)
• Filtering by epic confidentiality introduced in GitLab 13.9.
• Filtering by epic introduced in GitLab 13.11.

WARNING: Filtering roadmaps by milestone might not be available to you. Check the version history note above for details.

When you want to explore a roadmap, there are several ways to make it easier by sorting epics or filtering them by what's important for you.

A dropdown menu lets you show only open or closed epics. By default, all epics are shown.

You can sort epics in the Roadmap view by:

• Created date
• Last updated
• Start date
• Due date

Each option contains a button that toggles the sort order between ascending and descending. The sort option and order persist when browsing Epics, including the epics list view.

You can also filter epics in the Roadmap view by the epics':

• Author
• Label
• Milestone
• Confidentiality
• Epic
• Your Reaction

Roadmaps can also be visualized inside an epic.

Enable or disable filtering roadmaps by milestone (PREMIUM SELF)

Filtering roadmaps by milestone is under development but ready for production use. It is deployed behind a feature flag that is enabled by default. GitLab administrators with access to the GitLab Rails console can opt to disable it.

To enable it:

Feature.enable(:async_filtering)

To disable it:

Feature.disable(:async_filtering)

Timeline duration

• Introduced in GitLab Ultimate 11.0.
• In GitLab 12.9, Timelines were moved to the Premium tier.

Date range presets

• Introduced in GitLab 14.3. Deployed behind the roadmap_daterange_filter flag, disabled by default.
• Enabled on GitLab.com in GitLab 14.3.

FLAG: On self-managed GitLab, by default this feature is not available. To make it available per group, ask an administrator to enable the roadmap_daterange_filter flag. On GitLab.com, this feature is available. The feature is ready for production use.

Roadmap provides three date range options, each with predetermined timeline duration:

• This quarter: includes weeks present in current quarter.
• This year: includes weeks or months present in current year.
• Within 3 years: includes weeks, months, or quarters present in the previous 18 months and upcoming 18 months (that is, three years in total).

Layout presets

Depending on selected date range preset, Roadmap supports the following layout presets:

• Quarters: only available when the "Within 3 years" date range is selected.
• Months: available when either "This year" or "Within 3 years" date range is selected.
• Weeks (default): available for all the date range presets.

Quarters

In the Quarters preset, roadmap shows epics and milestones which have start or due dates falling within currently selected date range preset, where today is shown by the vertical red line in the timeline. The sub-headers underneath the quarter name on the timeline header represent the month of the quarter.

Months

In the Months preset, roadmap shows epics and milestones which have start or due dates falling within or going through currently selected date range preset, where today is shown by the vertical red line in the timeline. The sub-headers underneath the month name on the timeline header represent the date on starting day (Sunday) of the week. This preset is selected by default.

Weeks

In the Weeks preset, roadmap shows epics and milestones which have start or due dates falling within or going through currently selected date range preset, where today is shown by the vertical red line in the timeline. The sub-headers underneath the week name on the timeline header represent the days of the week.

Roadmap timeline bar

The timeline bar indicates the approximate position of an epic or milestone based on its start and due dates.