Tagging GitLab issues across repos

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Does anyone know if GitLab has a way to share labels across repos? We discussed general labels for:

  • Urgent (but that’s better handled by due dates)
  • Important (there’s priority labels for that)
  • Easy [edit: done!]
  • Quick [edit: done!]

to help team-members determine what to focus on.

I didn’t want to go through the hassle of creating them on each repo if I don’t have to…

P.S. Interesting that Discourse uses “tags” while GitLab uses “labels”, so if we’re consistent, we can even have that name help clarify which system is being discussed.

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Yep. You can create group labels that show up in every repo. You can also promote existing repo labels up to being group labels. I thought about doing that, but I also wanted to be really careful about creating global default labels that every repo (which are owned by different teams) has to use/put up with.

Design and code already have their own versions of most or all of these labels, for instance.

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Great, separately we can decide what if any to add globally then. I won’t do it right away.