Inherit issue and merge request description templates from template repositories
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/description_templates.html#set-instance-level-description-templates
Update: This has been added to the product --Problem to solve
Templates help increase consistency across projects in teams/organizations. Description templates help do this within a single project, but larger teams and organizations may want to do this for consistency and efficiency.
Further details
As a team working on micro-services, I want a single template for all bug reports but I have to manage this in every single project. I want to be able to add description templates to a group template repository https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5987 so that all projects in the group have the same description templates and they are kept up to date automatically.
As a large organization that wants to standardize templates and processes, I want to be able to share description templates across the entire instance/group and be able to update them in one location and have them change for everyone.
Proposal
Extend instance file template repositories https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5306 and group template repository https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5987 with support for description templates.
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
Template repositories with issues and merge request description templates within. The usage ping can be extended to count the number of template repositories with description templates.