Category Direction - User Profile

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User Profile
Introduction and how you can help
Overview
Target audience and experience
Maturity
What's next & why

User Profile


Stage	Data Stores
Maturity	Not Applicable
Content Last Reviewed	`2024-08-20`

Introduction and how you can help

Thanks for visiting this category direction page on User Profiles at GitLab. The User Profile category is part of the Tenant Scale group within the Core Platform section and is maintained by Christina Lohr.

This vision and direction is constantly evolving and everyone can contribute:

Please comment in the linked issues and epics. Sharing your feedback directly on GitLab.com or submitting a merge request to this page are the best ways to contribute to our strategy.
Please share feedback directly via email, or schedule a video call. If you're a GitLab user and have direct feedback about your needs for User Profiles, we'd love to hear from you.
Please open an issue using the ~"Category:User Profile" label, or reach out to us internally in the #g_tenant-scale Slack channel.

Overview

The concept of a user isn't a new one, but it touches a number of areas in GitLab that are critical to the success of our users. Namely user settings and how a user's profile is shown to the instance/world.

Target audience and experience

Any user of GitLab could be considered a relevant audience, but improvements in this area likely think about two specific instances:

Large self-managed instances: These are customers with large seat counts, who need the ability to understand who is using GitLab and who is not - and have the tools needed to manage these users at scale.
GitLab.com: For individual contributors, the User Profile becomes your identity as a developer. While concepts like the contribution graph or project list may not be of paramount importance to a self-managed enterprise user, individual developers on GitLab.com want their profile and presence on GitLab.com to represent them.

Maturity

Users are considered a non-marketing category without a maturity level that can be compared to other competing solutions.

What's next & why

Next: Due to other priorities for the Core Platform section, we are not planning to make significant investments to the User Profile category in the next 6-8 milestones.

We are planning improvements to User Profiles in the mid-term to make them more personalized. If you want to contribute to the User Profile page, you can add suggestions in this epic or submit a community contribution for one of these issues.