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Move from parent and child issues to epics

Nicolas Dular requested to merge nicolasdular-master-patch-40494 into master

Why is this change being made?

This MR implements the Handbook change from the RFC to switch from Parent and Child issues to Epics

  • It explains how we want to structure Epics, Child Epics and Issues
  • The gotchas and workarounds when working with epics (especially when working with multiple top level groups)
  • Where discussion and single source of truth should be

The reason why we want to switch to epics:

  • Issue health status in epic tree seems very useful to get a better overview
  • Generally a better overview of a project since issue status is always accurate
  • It's easy to bulk edit issues
  • It's easy to create issues in a bulk (which comes handy for breaking down issues)
  • Nice overview of the roadmap
  • Dogfooding 🐶 In the longterm epics will improve and be better than our parent/child solution

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Edited by Nicolas Dular

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