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Slash command to promote issue to incident

Release notes

Sometimes after time and effort have been invested in an issue, the participants realize that the problem to be solved needs to be escalated to an incident. Leveraging slash commands, a known paradigm in GitLab, would allow them to promote the issue to an incident seamlessly while maintaining all of the context and discussion on the same record.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/quick_actions.html#issues-merge-requests-and-epics

Problem to solve

Sometimes after time and effort have been invested in an issue, the participants realize that the problem to be solved needs to be escalated to an incident. Leveraging slash commands, a known paradigm in GitLab, would allow them to promote the issue to an incident seamlessly while maintaining all of the context and discussion on the same record.

Intended users

User experience goal

User can promote an issue to an incident using a slash command

Proposal

Create slash command called /promote-to-incident. This will change the type of the issue from an issue to an incident.

Edited Dec 08, 2021 by Alana Bellucci