Epics
Single-level epics were moved from GitLab Ultimate to GitLab Premium in 12.8.
When issues share a theme across projects and milestones, you can manage them by using epics.
You can also create child epics, and assign start and end dates, which creates a visual roadmap for you to view progress.
Use epics:
- When your team is working on a large feature that involves multiple discussions in different issues in different projects in a group.
- To track when the work for the group of issues is targeted to begin and end.
- To discuss and collaborate on feature ideas and scope at a high level.
Relationships between epics and issues
The possible relationships between epics and issues are:
- An epic is the parent of one or more issues.
- An epic is the parent of one or more child epics. For details see Multi-level child epics.
graph TD
Parent_epic --> Issue1
Parent_epic --> Child_epic
Child_epic --> Issue2
Also, read more about possible planning hierarchies.
Roadmap in epics
If your epic contains one or more child epics that have a start or due date, a visual roadmap of the child epics is listed under the parent epic.
Related topics
- Manage epics and multi-level child epics.
- Link related epics based on a type of relationship.
- Create workflows with epic boards.
- Turn on notifications for about epic events.
- Award an emoji to an epic or its comments.
- Collaborate on an epic by posting comments in a thread.
- Use health status to track your progress.