Pinned issues
Description
In most projects there will be issues that are most relevant, right now. It would be great to be able to pin these issues to the top of the issue index.
Proposal
Pinned issues would allow project maintainers to attract attention to the most important current issues. In the GitLab projects single "management" issues are often used to index and point to another number of issues.
For the GitLab-CE project, I could see this being of benefit for the following types of issues:
- Current Release Direction issues
- Interested parties could easily find the upcoming features and know what's in the plan
- Overarching release direction issues could be used to index the individual team direction issues. Eg, ~CI and ~"issue boards"
- Regression issues
- After a new release, the regression issue is the first port of call for known bugs, this should be easy to find, so that duplicate bug reports aren't raised and those experiencing the issue know the problem has been acknowledged
- Community issues
- Meta issues that would benefit from community feedback could be pinned to the top of the issue index list to gain attention
- Issues arising
- Sometimes a version is released with an issue that is affecting a lot of users. With the option to pin the issue, users seeking a solution will be able to find it easily