add custom fields/attribute to issues

[andrewchenshx]

Feature Description

I think it would be great if custom attributes/fields could be added to issues.
Taiga has this feature while it's too heavyweight compared to Gitea.
thanks :)

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[andyculmer]

I agree that this would be a valuable feature. I would certainly be keen to migrate more projects to Gitea if custom fields were supported.

I note that this is a duplicate of #8665 and #20466, which were closed as not planned on the 24th July 2022.

The fact that 3 issues have been raised suggests there is some interest in this feature.

[andyculmer]

GitHub has had this feature for 2 years now, but I notice there's been no further comment on this proposal.

The issue tracker seems to be one area where Gitea doesn't quite match GitHub's feature set. I appreciate that Gitea does not have the development resources that GitHub has, so it would be great to understand whether this is a gap that's likely to be closed in the next year or so, or whether there's perhaps a strategic reason that this isn't being looked at. For example, is the strategy to defer to an external issue tracker for those that need this level of functionality and keep development effort focused on those areas that can't be so easily offloaded?

Any insights would be genuinely appreciated and would help with our longer term planning for tool selection. We may also be in a position to develop and contribute patches for some of this functionality, but I'm concerned that we could be paddling up stream.

[lunny]

I think yes, we have far less resources than Github.

Can you link some documentation or design about how Github support custom fields? I never used this feature on Github.

[andyculmer]

Thanks for your reply @lunny

GitHub adds two more types of View in addition to Gitea's Kanban board. These are Roadmap and Table. In the Table view, you can not only customize the columns in the table to add the standard issue fields, but you can also create new fields.

The documentation is as follows:

• Custom fields
• The different view layouts
• The tables view

[lunny]

I have a PR #30205, maybe it's related.

[andyculmer]

Some great features there, but looks mainly focused on labels. I didn't see any mention of custom fields in the list of resolved issues.