Great, pretty excited for the tasks to move to issues :) On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 9:01 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 10:10 PM Johnny Jazeix <jaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Also, some phabricator tasks have hierarchy, is there an equivalent in >> gitlab? There are tasks in gitlab too but I'm not sure it is always the >> equivalent. > > > Gitlab tasks can be related/linked together (and this can hopefully be > brought across), however they cannot be flagged as blocking/being blocked by > other tasks. > The functionality to create a task hierarchy through blocked relationships is > only available in Gitlab EE. >
Gitlab Free (that invent uses) also has the difference between 'Issues' and 'Tasks', the former being the equivalent to Phab tasks, the latter being intended as an atomic subtask, which allows for one level of dependency. On top of that, gitlab keeps tack of checklists in the UI, so some minor amount of hierarchy is possible. Overall, I've noticed that milestones are best for collecting tasks related to a release or a defined project (Say, a new tool, importer or workflow), while the boards are better for if you need to track the state of multiple issues, because Gitlab Free doesn't allow filtering of issues on a board (only having columns for a specific issue label), which effectively makes it a different UI for the issue list. Because the board columns map to a label, it makes sense to have columns be converted to labels for the vast majority of projects, yes. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Johnny > > > Thanks, > Ben -- Wolthera
