Reassigning contributions to a personal namespace owner when importing to a personal namespace introduced in GitLab 18.3 with a flag named user_mapping_to_personal_namespace_owner. Disabled by default.
Reassigning contributions to a personal namespace owner when importing to a personal namespace generally available in GitLab 18.6. Feature flag user_mapping_to_personal_namespace_owner removed.
The availability of this feature is controlled by a feature flag.
For more information, see the history.
User contribution mapping is not supported when you import projects to a personal namespace.
When you import to a personal namespace, all contributions are assigned to the personal namespace owner and they cannot be reassigned.
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Requirement for Maintainer role instead of Developer role introduced in GitLab 16.0 and backported to GitLab 15.11.1 and GitLab 15.10.5.
collaborators_import key in optional_stages was introduced in GitLab 16.0.
Feature flag github_import_extended_events was introduced in GitLab 16.8. Disabled by default. This flag improves the performance of imports but disables the single_endpoint_issue_events_import optional stage.