Enforce limit of 100 direct children for legacy epics
📣 Roll-out Update
- We will increase the limit on legacy epics to 5000 , noting that this high limit is an anti-abuse measure which we don't expect any well-intended customers or internal teams to hit.
- We will announce a deprecation, introducing the new epic direct child limit of 100 in 17.1 or 17.2 if we miss the cutoff.
- We will raise the limit on work items so that the current experience is not disrupted when we move to the new epic experience.
- We will implement the new 100 direct child limit on epics in 18.0 and update the deprecation status to removal.
- Issue #463814 has been created for additional discussion of the enforcement which will come in 18.0.
Summary
We have created a limit of 100 direct child relationships in work items. As such, we should introduce the same for legacy epics to prevent further creation of more than 100 direct children.
Having over 100 direct children under a parent epic leads to performance and pagination issues in the UI. It also makes the hierarchy much harder to visualize and manage for users.
Edited by Amanda Rueda