@victorwu
As this question was not answered by you since a week, I'll repost it for generat discussion.
Shared features:
- both are visible in the road map
- both link to issues
- both have start and end dates
- both have a title and description text
- both have thumbs-up capabilities
- both will exist on a group and project level
Only in epics:
- have comments
- sub-epics
- labels
- participants
Only in milestones:
- burndown chart
- link to merge requests
(Please correct that list if I missed important points. It already includes settled future features.)
So from a technical standpoint, I don't see any big differences. Either feature: milestones as well as epics, could be enhanced to fulfill the needs of the other. Currently, I only see a marketing issue. Epics are GitLab Ultimate, whereas milestones are available to everyone. Having a duplicated feature shouldn't be the goal.
Please explain what differences GitLab sees between milestones and epics.
