# Basic concept of Organisation, Repository, Milestone, Project **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [August 18, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/basic-concept-of-organisation-repository-milestone-project/5719 "2022-08-18T11:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@mrall](https://forum.gitea.com/u/mrall)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/basic-concept-of-organisation-repository-milestone-project/5719/1 "2022-08-18T11:45:02Z")
Hi, I’m trying to figure out the structural components of gitea - namely Organization, Repository, Milestone and Project. Coming from a gitlab background it’s not 100% clear to me, how to organize these. Especially Organization and Project are new to me. I didn’t find any documentation like “how to organize your projects with gitea”. In my case I have different customers, with different projects, each project containing multiple repositories (like src, doc, bin, etc.). So customers would fit into “organizations”. In gitlab I had sub-projects to represent the customers projects and under these there were the repos. It would be not a problem to put all repos under the organization - I just want to be sure to understand the concept. Maybe somebody can explain the concepts or give some examples what to put where. cheers ---
**Author:** ![cbrake](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/cbrake/32/4809_2.png) [@cbrake](https://forum.gitea.com/u/cbrake)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/basic-concept-of-organisation-repository-milestone-project/5719/2 "2022-08-18T14:53:27Z")
I was just looking at projects as well – is would be useful to be able to create projects at the org level, so that issues from multiple repos could be used in a single project board. Is this possible? One workaround might be to create an empty repo to hold a project but be able to add issues from other repos to it. ---
**Author:** ![cbrake](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/cbrake/32/4809_2.png) [@cbrake](https://forum.gitea.com/u/cbrake)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/basic-concept-of-organisation-repository-milestone-project/5719/3 "2022-08-18T14:54:12Z")
Custom fields in issues would also be very useful. ---
**Author:** ![eeyrjmr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/eeyrjmr/32/1095_2.png) [@eeyrjmr](https://forum.gitea.com/u/eeyrjmr)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/basic-concept-of-organisation-repository-milestone-project/5719/4 "2022-08-19T09:56:40Z")
Projects at org level are planned for v1.18 and it looks like it will arrive > > > \- Gitea version (or commit ref): 1.13.0-rc1 > > \## Description > > Hi, the new Pro…ject feature is wonderful, a huge thanks to everyone who helped develop it. > > As part of the big #8346 PR there was some support for organization boards and user boards (if a project is \`OrganizationType\`), but it's not exposed in the UI as far as I can tell (e.g. see also https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/11293#issuecomment-623670239 ). > > I think the most recent status is from this comment: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/8346#pullrequestreview-464238421 > > \> - cleanup some left over for ProjectTypeIndividual and ProjectTypeOrganization > \> - or finish to implement the ui > \> > \> I still would prefer to remove (or at least comment) the code related to User and Org project since it is not fully implemented before merging but I would not be against merging this PR like this since it would help to have other work on this. > > \--- > > This issue is a feature request to track exposing organization board support in the UI, Likewise pinning issues and repos are planned for v1.18 ---
**Author:** ![mrall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@mrall](https://forum.gitea.com/u/mrall)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/basic-concept-of-organisation-repository-milestone-project/5719/5 "2022-09-05T10:14:29Z")
no one can answer this question ? ---
**Author:** ![Mai-Lapyst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/mai-lapyst/32/5065_2.png) [@Mai-Lapyst](https://forum.gitea.com/u/Mai-Lapyst)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/basic-concept-of-organisation-repository-milestone-project/5719/6 "2022-09-06T19:48:28Z")
I come from gitlab as well, and being able to nest projects / groups was really neat for organization. Gitea on the other hand replicates githubs stucture, means a flat, one-depth structure. What I found worked best for me was to think about what scope a project has; if it is something bigger (i.e. a new tool for a customer that possible has many sub-projects or repos) it would get it’s own organisation. If its more a patch thing, i.e. something that stands soly for it, it wanders into a organisation ment to contain many of those small things. For example I would/do organize my customer as follows: - Customers that have only one little project get their project stored in a general organisation that is simply named like my workplace with the suffix “customers” (to differentiate it from the org that contains internal repos). - Customers that have many small or medium projects get their own organisation. - If a customer has a big project, which propably has its own unique name, it get it’s own organisation; named after the unique name. Hope I could help you a little bit and give you some ideas how to organize your repos 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mrall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@mrall](https://forum.gitea.com/u/mrall)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/basic-concept-of-organisation-repository-milestone-project/5719/7 "2022-09-07T10:39:25Z")
Hi, thanks for your answer, especially the “use organisation for bigger projects” gave me a better idea of how to organize things. cheers ---
**Author:** ![lunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/lunny/32/4701_2.png) [@lunny](https://forum.gitea.com/u/lunny)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/basic-concept-of-organisation-repository-milestone-project/5719/8 "2023-09-21T06:55:04Z")