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Opened by Luca Williams@tipyn🐙
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Remove ability to create duplicate label names across project/group levels

Problem to solve

Duplicating labels has created a few issues that now need resolving:

We need to improve the user experience of managing labels.

Proposal

We don't encourage the creation of duplicate labels - and instead encourage use of the highest level group label. If we suggest this:

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Then once they click "add default lists" - GitLab should use the highest group level label rather than create new project labels with the same names as the group(s).

  • If a user tries to create a new label and there is already a group label with that name, the system should prevent them from creating the duplicate label and insist they use the group label.
  • If a user tries to create a new label on the group level and there is already an existing label with the same name in a child project, the system should insist that they go promote that label to the top most parent group.

There may be some issues with permissions here - i.e. managing labels at a group level when a user doesn't have permission to do that but wants to manage labels in their own project.

What does success look like?

  • Cleaner label management and less risk of creating bugs where duplicate labels conflict.
  • Users are never able to create a label with the same name anywhere within a top level group and all of its descendant groups and projects.
Edited by Gabe Weaver

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