Relations between Issues in CE
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Description
This is call to the devs to make this feature gitlab-ce#4058 available in Community Edition too.
I understand your position that only big projects requires Issue relations, but by working in a small teams I could say that we required to link issues between each other. We are linking them by using #ID but they aren't linked in Issue Board and there is no way to unlink them by this way and if linking will be performed not from a start - then it will appear only after many comments, and it becomes not consistent and hard to rely on it.
Because of it we are required to use YouTrack or Jira instead of the Gitlab as single point of truth. YouTrack doesn't have seamlessly integration with Gitlab and we are tried to use Jira as Issue Tracker and understood that they ties client to use only their products... Jira is not integrating with Gitlab SSO and if you want to use SSO - you should use Atlassian Crowd and then you will buy some more plugins for Jira and over time you will start to think to move your code to BitBucket instead of Gitlab, because Atlassian will always remind you that their code tool is completely integrated with their issue tracking or buy additional Atlassian plugin to integrate Jira with Gitlab, but it wouldn't be so cool as BitBucket integration which goes out of the box.
With this case of pain I wanted to show you that any software project is not about just maintaining code. You need to describe and plan what you will do how you will do it... even small projects... and it's starts from issues. Without any relations it's possible, but if all of the competitors gives you this feature - you are starting to look on them and they will try to switch you on their products for sure.
Proposal
I'm not asking to bring fully functional linkage to CE like blocks, clones or duplicates, but only related issues display on issues and board will be completely enough for the small teams.
Links / references
gitlab-ce#4058 Relations between Issues