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Hi,

First of all, thank you for raising an issue to help improve the GitLab product. This issue was labelled as a ~"feature proposal" in the past. In order to maintain order in the issue tracker, we are starting to close off old, unpopular feature proposals that have not gained many votes since opening.

This issue will be marked for closure, as it meets the following criteria:

Created over 1 year ago
Labelled as a ~"feature proposal"
Unscheduled (not associated with a milestone)
Less than 10 upvotes

Thanks for your help and please raise any new feature proposals as a new issue.

/cc @markglenfletcher

With the new ui this could be even easier

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now even more important for me.

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@jackib what are your thoughts on this? Currently, when a project is integrated with Jira, we replace the Issues sidebar item with one that links there instead.

It seems to me like this proposal would be to add the ability for project admins to add these arbitrarily, which I can certainly see a usecase for, but I'm not sure how to consider it in the face of the already-high complexity of our navigation.

@deuley Hmmmmm, it's an interesting idea but I wonder how many customers would use this. Regardless of where the links would live in the UI, it's going to add complexity. I wonder how customers manage their workflows now, how they navigate between GitLab.com and the integrated web-based tools they use?

My recommendation would be that we need more information to validate this. @eileenux Does this sound like something you could help with?

@jackib @deuley Happy to help with this! The best way to get this prioritized is to open up a research proposal and provide more details on what you're hoping to learn. From there, we can dig deeper into figuring out the best method(s) for gathering the info we need to answer our questions.