Related issues across instances

Problem to solve

We already have the Related issues feature. However it only allows to link issues on the same GitLab instance. To help with federation efforts (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/6468) we could support linking to GitLab issues on other instances.

Intended users

Everybody who uses issues.

Further details

This helps for interaction with customers or between different open source projects.

Proposal

Support pasting URLs such as https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/gitlab-renderer/issues/1 which is then displayed as related issue:

external-related-issue

Permissions and Security

  • instance admins whitelist domains of other GitLab instances
  • otherwise same permissions as for related issues apply

Documentation

Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

It's possible to mark an issue on another GitLab instance as related.

What is the type of buyer?

Links / references

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