Allow user to apply or turn swimlanes on within their board

Problem to solve

Parker When refining work in progress with my team, I need to understand if the work in progress will achieve the larger goals, So I can accurately communicate status to stakeholders

User experience goal

Allow users to easily turn swimlanes on in their board in order to see their issues group by the metric selected.

Proposal

• (A) Boards will have a Swimlane option that can be toggled on/off from the header of their board
• (B) Epic is the only option for MVC
• Epic swimlanes are displayed automatically (not individually configured)
• Swimlanes logic: Group issues together in a swimlane that are assigned to the same Epic.
• Users can click the Group by dropdown to select to group their issues by : None which means no swimlanes or Epic
  • No grouping/none is default

Acceptance criteria

• Behind :boards_with_swimlanes feature flag
• Drop down with two options: None (default) and Epic
• Persist setting as part of board's scope#255915 (closed)
• None should show current Vue app. Epics should show a new, blank boards Vue app.
• Add snowplow event that is triggered on toggle
  • label: "change_group_by", property: [none or epic]

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