Public groups should get Gold Plan (group) features
Background
Under Gold Plan on https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/, we say:
Every public project get the features of gold for free irrespective of their plan.
Aside from the grammar problem, this only mentions that projects get gold features, but we now have group level EEP features such as group level issue boards. Should public groups get those Gold features?
Obviously private projects under the public group shouldn't get higher project-level features, but if an open source project has an open source group and all open source projects, shouldn't they get the best of everything?
I know this gets complicated, since it's probably common to have public groups with only private projects (and thus no actual "open source" anywhere) and so we'd be unnecessarily giving away Gold functionality. Not sure how to resolve that.
Scope for this issue
Access group board for public groups on free GitLab.com
- For the free GitLab plan (and all plans above), a public group will have access to the group issue board feature, including saved config and other gold plan features.
- Any public group board will pull in all issues from all projects (respecting existing product visibility constraints) in that group (and in the future, subgroups as well).
- But private project issues will not be shown on the board, because we want to stay consistent of private projects' data not showing up on free GitLab.com for this higher-tier feature.
Access epics for public groups on free GitLab.com
- For the free GitLab plan (and all plans above), a public group will have access to the epic feature.
- Any public epic will pull in all issues from all projects (respecting existing product visibility constraints) in that group.
- But private project issues will not be shown on the epic, because we want to stay consistent of private projects' data not showing up on free GitLab.com for this higher-tier feature.