Option to automatically create namespaces under Group

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Problem

This was shared in the context of Group Managed accounts but is true for any group that wants to keep all workflows contained to their top-level namespace.

From @bleggett:

For private Organisations on GitLab.com with GMA enabled, personal namespaces don't exist and aren't autocreated when users are provisioned via SSO into our private managed .COM group - so we can't really support innersourcing workflows that rely on individuals forking within the group.

If I'm Bob the employee on Team A and I want to fork Team B's repo and work on it to add a feature or improvement before submitting an MR and deleting the fork - where do I fork it to? If this were opensource I'd naturally fork it to my personal namespace but once these fixes hit, I don't have anywhere to fork to because I don't have a managed personal namespace by default as a group managed user.

So the best option we have is to run a script on our end that hits the Gitlab API and creates 1 private group for each individual employee within the managed .COM corp group space. Given the number of users we have, I think having Gitlab auto-create personal spaces within the managed corp group for corp managed users would be infinitely preferable.

Proposal

  • Allow personal namespaces under groups on GitLab.com - aka gitlab.com/tipyn > gitlab.com/companyname/tipyn
  • Option to create them automatically when users are added to the group
  • These namespaces and the contained projects are visible to Group Owners of the Organisation's group
  • Group Owners are also owners of the projects, allowing them to manage the projects if necessary
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