We upgraded to Silver because I liked some of the upcoming features for planning which would alleviate some of the problems we discussed in our teams, and I really pushed for that upgrade. Now, some of theme were post-poned to 12.9, and I can wait, but GitLab really feels like it's in a weird state.<p>For example, I can create boards that filter by milestone, but I can't create boards that filter by epic. I can't even add epics to milestones. So all in all, with the upcoming feature of assigning issues to multiple milestones, milestones seem like a much better way to group issues than epics.<p>In addition, with the upcoming feature "Show milestones in roadmap", I barely see any need for Epics, since they integrate so badly with the rest of the planning tools gitlab provides, and I wonder why epics are a thing at all (and why gitlab doesn't just drop epics in favor of a milestone-type called 'epic')<p>Another feature which I sorely miss, which are admittedly difficult to implement, are swimlanes/rows in issue boards. They would provide an entirely new dimension of possibilities. Relevant Epic in gitlab org: <a href="https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/328" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/328</a><p>All in all, I love using Gitlab, but it also frustrates me greatly, since my main use is for its VCS and planning capabilites, and the latter is in a weird state, which leaves me with no choice but to wait.
I wish the full jira implementation wasn't only available in the most expensive plan. We would rather use gitlab but the cost would be more than double of what we pay for bit bucket.