In Related Issues box allow search across group/subgroup projects by issue name instead of number.
Problem to solve
Related Issues box currently only allows you to search by Issue number.
This is not how many user types think because they don't know or care about the issue numbers, it also restricts you to linking issues within the current repo.
Further details
- projects where there are multiple repositories (frontend/backend split for example)
- issues which require upstream changes (for example GitLab CE / Gitaly)
- issues which are worked on in forks (for example GitLab CE community contributions)
Proposal
Allow searching for issues by a substring of the title, and search over all projects within the group/subgroup that the user has access to.
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
allow linking of issues via text searching