Assign issue / merge request to next upcoming milestone
Problem
- How can we easily assign an issue / merge request to next upcoming milestone.
- Often you just want to push an issue / merge request to next upcoming milestone. You just want to defer it because you don't have time for it now, but it's important enough that you want to consider it very soon.
- We already know what is the next upcoming milestone. So how can we do this?
Design
- Indicate next upcoming milestone in the existing milestone dropdown assignment UI.
- Applies to everywhere that dropdown assignment UI exists, including issue / merge request sidebars, and issue / merge request web forms.
- Break ties arbitrarily for next upcoming.
- Use ellipsis on the milestone name as needed.
Original description
This behaviour is already implemented for filtering issues and merge requests.
The idea would be having this:
In this:
\cc @DouweM