Jira: Expose GitLab as virtual group to enable instance-level DVCS integration

Release notes

Jira Development panel is currently limited to GitLab namespaces and can't be connected to an entire GitLab instance.

GitLab account configuration for DVCS receives an additional field Instance name to expose to Jira, whose content will be provided to the Jira DVCS Connector as the Team or User Account.

Intended users

Customers who are relying heavily on Jira for planning, e.g.

User experience goal

See Release notes above.

Proposal

See Release notes above.

Possible, the Project Alias feature is relevant here, although it is currently limited to SSH requests and a single project per alias.

Further details

In later iterations, some kind of N-to-M-mapping of GitLab projects and (sub)groups to different virtual namespaces might be an idea.

Permissions and Security

Documentation

See /docs/ links above.

Availability & Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

Is this a cross-stage feature?

Links / references

Edited by Katrin Leinweber