Additional fields in user profiles
For big international company with Gitlab users dispatched around the world the location
field is not sufficient.
Filtering user according to their country, town or even work place coordinates is useful when running automated tasks like group membership management or usage statistics collection via the API. The fields can be fill up automatically according to corporate lookup data and reused by any further external service.
Using GPS coordinates would also enable the possibility to visualize users on a map.
Proposal
Currently only the fields location
and department
are available for this purpose.
Additionally there could be:
-
country -
city -
GPS coordinates -
custom (for any other company specific data like division, organisation code, room, maybe title...)