Ability to associate issue with an Epic from the issue
This is a duplicate. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/6878
Problem to solve
Currently if you create an issue and want to add it to an existing epic, you must create the issue, copy and paste the URL and then find the epic (by going up to the group level and going into Epics and searching) and then add the issue to the epic by pasting the url after you click the plus to add an issue to an epic.
Intended users
I believe this will be used primarily by Parker and Delaney
Further details
I'm just trying to simplify the process of associating an epic and an issue
Proposal
I think the easiest is to allow the association of the epic directly from the issue. Proposed process: Add issue, click to add an epic associated with the issue (like you would a related issue), type & and you get a list of epics and you can choose one and then the issue is added to the epic.
Permissions and Security
It should only show epics in groups that the user has access to that are above the current project.
Documentation
Testing
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
I think you should be able to associate an issue with an epic with less than 5 clicks