Issue Summary

The Epic Link picker in basic issue search brings Epics with the Epic Status as "Done" issues by default.
The one in the issue edit screen has a checkbox in case the user wishes to explicitly search for Done epics.

In large environments that have many Epics, this might result in slower, more expensive requests, which could be detrimental to the performance.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the issue search;
2. Add the Epic Link;
3. Click the text box.

Expected Results

Only the Epics that are not "Done" are brought:

Actual Results

It makes a search that brings all Epics, which can be unnecessarily slow:

Threads related to the /rest/greenhopper/1.0/epics endpoint could get slow, depending on the number of Epics in the environment, and depending on whether the project basic search argument was set or not.

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available

As a mitigation measure, we recommend archiving old issues/projects.