Extraction of related issues from text
Description
Currently GitLab extracts related merge requests from the issue description text. The found items are listed below the description text in a separate section like related issues. But incontrast to merge requests, related issues are not extracted from text, but need manual interaction.
See this issue as an example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43834
Proposal
- Automatically extract related issues from issue description text.
- Automatically extract related issues from comments
If this does not fit into the proposed workflow of GitLab, then please offer a hint after issue creation to add the found issue references to the related issues list.