EM Coverage for André Luís from 2025-10-27 until 2025-10-31 🎃

Intent

This issue describes how broader group and team members are supporting an Engineering Manager in taking a meaningful break away from work. The intent is that the EM isn't required to "catch up" before and after taking a well-deserved vacation. It is also an opportunity for EMs and team members to collaborate with others outside their immediate group.

This issue is an extension of the Engineering Manager Backup process described in the handbook.

Period

Week	Status
October 27 - 31 🎃	🫥 Out of office

🤝 Responsibilities

Include creating release planning, weekly triage issues, responding to technical requests, team retros, team member 1:1s etc.

Priority	Theme	Context Link	Primary	Secondary
HIGH	Engineering Support groupsource code Frontend (incl. Requests for Help)		@jerasmus	Ask in #g_create_source-code-review-frontend
HIGH	Engineering Support groupcode review Frontend (incl. Requests for Help)		@iamphill	Ask in #g_create_source-code-review-frontend
HIGH	Engineering Allocation: groupcode review	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/552074	@francoisrose	@dsatcher
HIGH	Incidents, FCLs groupsource code		@andrevr	@dsatcher
HIGH	Incidents, FCLs groupcode review		@francoisrose	@dsatcher
HIGH	2nd Tier SME On Call Escalation path support (✅ overridden in incident.io already)		@francoisrose	@dsatcher
MEDIUM	Reusable Rapid Diffs support		@slashmanov	Ask in #f_rapid_diffs
MEDIUM	Urgent Access Requests		@francoisrose	@dsatcher

💪 Coverage Tasks

📖 References

✅ Issue Tasks

⭕ Opening Tasks

• Assign to yourself
• Title the issue EM Coverage for YOUR-NAME from DD-MON-YYYY until DD-MON-YYYY
• Add an issue comment for your ♻️ Retrospective Thread
• Add any relevant references including direction pages, group handbook pages, etc
• Fill in the Responsibilities table with broad based responsibilities
• Fill in the specific Coverage Tasks with distinct items to complete and assignees
• Assign to anyone with a specific task or responsibility assigned to them
• Share this issue in your section, stage and group Slack channels
• Ensure you've assigned tasks via PTO Ninja
• Ensure your PTO Ninja auto-responder points team members to this issue
• Update your GitLab status to include a reference to this issue

❌ Closing Tasks

• Update your GitLab status to indicate you are back at work. Your Gmail and Slack statuses should automatically update.
• Consider thanking your backup for their support.
• Assign back to yourself and remove others
• Review any Retrospective Items and update this template