13.0 Contributor Experience Update

The Ecosystem group at GitLab is responsible for the Pajamas Design System and the GitLab Development Kit, supporting contributors in various development tasks. Recent updates include enhancements to Pajamas with semantic releases and conventional commits, updates to the component status table, and initial usage guidelines for Progress Bars and File Uploaders. GitLab UI saw the introduction of UX Reviewers, new markdown typescale features, and various component updates, alongside efforts to improve documentation aesthetics. Figma migration involved transitioning from Sketch to the Pajamas UI Kit, while new icons were added to GitLab SVG. The GitLab Development Kit (GDK) introduced a quiet mode and improved Ruby gem checks, alongside documentation restructuring for better navigation. Additional improvements include automatic YARD documentation generation, new commands for troubleshooting GDK errors, and various CI enhancements, such as making CI jobs interruptible and implementing JSON logging in Sidekiq.

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