show environment status in linked issues

Right now, we show the pipeline and MR status in an issue that is linked to/from a MR. I propose we do the same with environments, so you can see whether a certain change / issue is live somewhere.

cc @markpundsack @ayufan @victorwu

added ~874211 label

@JobV Do you envision this in a system information box, like we do for MRs, or something more subtle, like in the Related Merge Requests list, just adding content/link after the merge requests?

One concern is that there can be multiple MRs, so we'd have to extend the info box to handle that, if we went that direction. Probably easy to do since it's just more lines. But we don't have the system information box on issues at all currently.

/cc @dimitrieh

@markpundsack I imagine a very minimal version of something like the MR box. Probably with less information, but having some buttons to quickly check something out would be very cool.

I'm sure @dimitrieh has some ideas.

The interplay between issues and MRs is less than optimal. Several times I've looked at an issue, and even asked if there's any update, only to have someone point out that there's an MR already, and it's almost done. Partially, I'm used to GitHub where, using hub CLI, we'd usually convert issues into pull requests rather than link between them.

@markpundsack a more direct coupling is definitely something to consider. We already encourage this with the "Create branch" button in an issue. Should we do more?

Related: In issue boards, I've often wanted to know if there is a related MR already, so I imagine showing the MR number right on the issue card somewhere. I could then see adding an icon to visit the review app for that MR, all from the issue board. That might be going to far though.

added feature proposal in GitLab FOSS ~14281 labels

I don't think that's too far @markpundsack, that sounds amazing. And then imagine having a filter for issues with/without MRs, review apps, etc. Super cool.

@victorwu can you follow up / close here?

Let's work on related issues first. Closing for now.

closed

@victorwu looking back at this issue, I think this is still something that might be interesting. I still want to be able to see what is live where. No need to do this now, but not to close, I'd say.

reopened

changed milestone to %Next 3-6 months in gitlab-foss

moved from gitlab-foss#28560 (moved)