Add iterations on project level

Proposal

I have a question regarding “Iterations” in gitlab. Iterations is a feature in gitlab that I use for our sprints. One iteration is one sprint with a dedicated start and end date. Gitlabs limitation is that iterations can only be created on group level. We started our main project with the main repository long time ago, when iterations as a feature did not exist yet. When Iterations became available I started to use them on group level, so far so good.

In later stages of the project the product grew and we created several other projects and now have come to a point where there would be a need to create separate iterations for individual projects.

This doesn’t work, because you can only create iterations if they do not interfere with start and end dates defined in other iterations of the same group.

As a workaround we could create subgroups and create iterations on subgroup level (iteration A in subgroup A and iteration B in subgroup B, both with the same start and end date), but that would mean we would have to change the repository paths and obviously would like to avoid this.

Finally, my question: Why do you restrict the management of iterations to groups/and subgroups? Are there any plans to change this in a foreseeable future? Do you have any other suggestions how we could tackle the issue, other than the workarounds I had mentioned?