In our product GitLab we a the reporter role to view issues but not the code, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/permissions/permission

In our product GitLab we a the reporter role to view issues but not the code, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/permissions/permissions.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/perm... Would that solve your issue?