Category Direction - Templates

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• Introduction and how you can help
• Mission
• 概要
• What's next & why
• What is not planned right now

Last Reviewed: 2020-08-07

Introduction and how you can help

Thanks for visiting the direction page for Templates in GitLab. This page belongs to the Import group of the Manage stage and is maintained by Haris Delalić who can be contacted directly via email. This vision is a work in progress and everyone can contribute. If you'd like to provide feedback or contribute to this vision, please add them as comments in the corresponding epic for this category.

Mission

Project templates make it easy to setup a new project by starting from an existing one that already has all the required configuration, files, and boilerplate. GitLab provides a variety of templates as a starting point for creating new projects and it's also possible to contribute to these; administrators can even configure templates specific to your GitLab instance.

概要

We already have dozens of templates for common implementations: Project templates, CI YAML templates, Pages templates, and even example projects. Please note that only the Project templates functionality is a focus for the Import group.

Don't see a template that you wish we had? Please consider contributing that template to GitLab.

• Issue List
• Documentation: Project templates, Custom group-level project templates, CI YAML templates, Enterprise templates

What's next & why

The Import group is currently focused on the maintenance and stability fixes for the existing Templates functionality. There are no new features being planned for 2020.

The long-term strategy includes the following feature, which has been identified as priority for this category:

• Refine the Template Contribution Process. The current process for creating additional templates involves manual steps. We are looking to automate those steps to make this process easier for everyone to contribute new templates. We plan to make steps toward this solution in 2020.

What is not planned right now

Adding new templates will not be prioritized by this group. However, we encourage anyone to contribute new templates to GitLab and we will actively support those efforts.

This feature has been discussed, but there are currently no plans to work on it:

• Parameterize Project Templates. A top customer issue is a request to parameterize project templates to enable templates configured with variables to prompt the user for inputs that will eliminate manual customizations after the project is created. We will reevaluate the priority of this feature in the future.