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Issue created Oct 19, 2021 by Nick Post@npostContributor

Investigation - Inheritance behaviour across Namespaces

Problem

There is a lot of inconsistency in our inheritance. See: #338819 (comment 667830288)

Example: How various plan objects currently behave
  1. Labels from a parent Namespace are visible in a child Namespace label list.
  2. Labels from a child are not visible in a parent's label list but they can be used for filtering & board lists.
  3. Iterations from a parent Namespace are visible in a child Namespace.
  4. Iterations from a child are not visible in the parent's iteration list.
  5. Epics from a parent Namespace are visible in a child Namespace issue picker.
  6. Epics from a parent are not visible a child Namespace epic list.
  7. When an issue from a child is assigned to an epic in a parent, the epic is visible when "group by" is enabled.
  8. Issues from a child can be assigned to milestones from a parent.
  9. Issues from a child are visible in a parent's issue list.
  10. Milestones from a parent are not visible in the child's Milestone list.
  11. Milestones from a child are visible in the parent's Milestone list.
  12. The Member of a child can view the child's work items within the parent Namespace Board and edit the work item from within this context even though they are not a Member of the parent Namespace.
  13. There are all sorts of additional inconsistencies when it comes to Namespace sharing (&5791).

Proposal

  1. Investigate the current state of inheritance of features and functionality across instance/group/subgroup/project.
  2. Define and document general inheritance patterns for namespaces to follow going forward.
Edited Oct 19, 2021 by Nick Post
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