Feature: Issue submission validation

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Proposal

A US Government customer is requesting a feature to validate issue submissions based on specific criteria. They have an organizational requirement to meet specific compliance standards for record keeping -- at present, their approach is through the usage of labels. Having the ability to do this natively would avoid needing to use a compute-intensive CI/CD workaround (below).

Workaround

It's possible to use an Issues events webhook in conjunction with a pipeline trigger to kick off a CI job defined in .gitlab-ci.yml, which requests against the Projects API

This would require:

• Pipeline Trigger token
• Project Access Token
• Group Access Token (if checking projects within same group)

1. Create pipeline trigger token on Project B
2. Create project access token on Project A. Save token to CI/CD vars of Project B.
3. Add webhook to Project A with pipeline trigger token (from #1 above)
4. Create .gitlab-ci.yml file that hits the /projects/:id/issues?labels=foo,bar endpoint.

Relevant Info:

• US Federal ticket (Internal access to verified US Citizens only)
• SFDC (internal)

cc @rachel_fuerst