## Problem to solve [External status checks](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/status_checks.html) are available on Ultimate only, plus currently > The lack of a status check response does not block the merging of a merge request. On top of technical difficulties outlined by @knockfog [below](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/370948#note_1089605367) that makes it impossible to translate GitHub's "Require status checks to pass before merging" rule to projects imported into GitLab. ## Purposed solution We should add a short note to the documentation: - state that integrations aren't applied during import and this rule cannot be translated during import - link to [External status checks](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/status_checks.html) - possibly point to "Support to allow merges to be blocked when external status checks fail is proposed in epic [&8516](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/8516)" as well.