Milestones
Milestones can have different functions in a project, but are used in GitLab to indicate where one stands in achieving a common goal for which issues and merge requests are defined.
A milestone can be used to mark the beginning and the end of an Agile iteration or a sprint. It's quite practical to just name the milestone after your sprint and then you can associate issues to the milestone to add work.
At GitLab, they are used as one release cycle. For instance, when they go from release 11.8 to 11.9, all the work contained in that release will be represented by a milestone, and that will be labeled 11.9. Each piece of work is represented in an issue, for instance, the problems you need to solve, the conversation. All these issues ...
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