Issues rollup to Shared Group from Shared Projects
Problem to solve
Currently you can share projects with other groups. This makes it possible to add a group of users to a project with a single action, however the shared project does not rollup/share issues with the group its been shared with.
Intended users
- Rachel (Release Manager)
- Parker (Product Manager)
- Delaney (Development Team Lead)
- Sasha (Software Developer)
- Presley (Product Designer)
- Devon (DevOps Engineer)
- Sam (Security Analyst)
- Dana (Data Analyst)
Further details
Say you have SubGroupA with a dev team and you would like them to start work on a ProjectB that happens to be in SubGroupB (separate team and separate permissions), when sharing the project with SubGroupA the issues from ProjectB do not flow up/not shown in SubGroupA and thus the work cannot be tracked for that Subgroup/Team
Proposal
When a Project is shared with a separate SubGroup, issues should be shared and rollup to the SubGroup its shared with for tracking and visibility.
Mid-Market(MM)- Premium-130 user: Customer Reported: https://gitlab.my.salesforce.com/0014M00001gTbJM cc: @gweaver
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We are discussing how to best solve this problem as part of this working group (https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/structure/working-groups/simplify-groups-and-projects/)
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Interesting side note: milestones from shared groups are already displayed in the group level where projects are shared to, but the issues from shared projects (unfortunately) are not.
On the other side of the equation, the milestones from the group that the projet is shared with cannot be selected in the project that is shared.
Edited by Chris Turchin-
No good options. The closest thing you can do is fork the project, but that means a duplication of issues. You can directly add the other team members to your project, but now member management is quite messy, and their group-level Kanban boards are now split up.
My company is currently split between Jira and Gitlab project managers, and this issue was one of the main drivers for the flight software management to choose Jira. I was a real proponent for using GitLab project manager, because it seems obvious at my level. But, its rigid hierarchy becomes a real problem for upper management when sub-projects are shared across teams.
Right now, I think they are concentrating on the new issue/epic structure first, but I hope they keep this in mind in their restructuring.
