Teams in GitLab

Background:

GitLab uses Groups to organize users. We should consider an explicit organizational concept of a Team in GitLab, and what might that look like.

What questions are you trying to answer?

• How should we build a Team in GitLab? Are they subsets of Groups, or are they a new, standalone concept?
  • Do teams span across Groups? How might we do this on GitLab.com?
• How do I create/view/update/delete a team? What does this look like?
• Do we need public/internal/private visibility for Teams (or some similar mechanism)?
• How do roles and permissions work?

Thus far, the most compelling use-case for Teams is to help us with team-based assignments in Issues and MRs.

• How do we assign issues and MRs to Teams?
• Should we be able to assign multiple Teams to an issue or MR?
• When assigning or designating a Team assignment, who gets what notification? When do team members stop getting the notification?

Links / references:

• Existing epic
• How other products approach Teams
• Group assignees