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Approver, not assignee. You can be an approver without being assigned the MR.

by lloeki 8y ago

Vinnl 8y ago
Ah, that's something else indeed. I guess it does show up in the TODO list which is the button to the right of the one I linked earlier, but there's a lot of other cruft in there, including already merged MRs.
- lloeki 8y ago
  > but there's a lot of other cruft in there The ToDos is a sort of inbox of actionables. We don't use approvers because we use assignees for MRs but here you'll get anything that requires (or may require) some action on your part, like mentions, assignments, CI job failures you're responsible of... ToDos get automatically "done" when you act, such as replying to a mention. Alternatively you can manually mark some issues as "done" or "to do". I like this workflow personally use them to great effect by practicing a form of Inbox Zero, and combined with the personal issues and MR lists they give me a good picture of what I have to do.
  - Vinnl 8y ago
    > ToDos get automatically "done" when you act Well, that's not flawless. I never use the TODOs view, because it's full of items like this: https://screenshots.firefox.com/wxy2llOZM5g0HWre/gitlab.com https://screenshots.firefox.com/wxy2llOZM5g0HWre/gitlab.com In other words, there's a number of issues assigned to me listed there, even though they're closed. There's also a few mentions that I don't otherwise interact with (I've seen them in my email and that's that), so I'd have to manually mark those as Done in the GitLab interface after reading them in my email.
- svesselov 8y ago
  We completely agree with you here. We want TODO to be meaningful and useful to everyone. The UX team is working through an exploration issue to address this, we would love to hear your thoughts on the issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43474 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43474
jramsay 8y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I've just taken on merge requests as part of my responsibilities, and hope to schedule this soon! Here's a link to the issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1951 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1951 I'll

Approver, not assignee. You can be an approver without being assigned the MR.

by lloeki 8y ago

Approver, not assignee. You can be an approver without being assigned the MR.

Ah, that's something else indeed. I guess it does show up in the TODO list which is the button to the right of the one I linked earlier, but there's a lot of other cruft in there, including already merged MRs.

lloeki 8y ago
> but there's a lot of other cruft in there The ToDos is a sort of inbox of actionables. We don't use approvers because we use assignees for MRs but here you'll get anything that requires (or may require) some action on your part, like mentions, assignments, CI job failures you're responsible of... ToDos get automatically "done" when you act, such as replying to a mention. Alternatively you can manually mark some issues as "done" or "to do". I like this workflow personally use them to great effect by practicing a form of Inbox Zero, and combined with the personal issues and MR lists they give me a good picture of what I have to do.
- Vinnl 8y ago
  > ToDos get automatically "done" when you act Well, that's not flawless. I never use the TODOs view, because it's full of items like this: https://screenshots.firefox.com/wxy2llOZM5g0HWre/gitlab.com https://screenshots.firefox.com/wxy2llOZM5g0HWre/gitlab.com In other words, there's a number of issues assigned to me listed there, even though they're closed. There's also a few mentions that I don't otherwise interact with (I've seen them in my email and that's that), so I'd have to manually mark those as Done in the GitLab interface after reading them in my email.
svesselov 8y ago
We completely agree with you here. We want TODO to be meaningful and useful to everyone. The UX team is working through an exploration issue to address this, we would love to hear your thoughts on the issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43474 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43474

jramsay 8y ago

Thanks for your feedback. I've just taken on merge requests as part of my responsibilities, and hope to schedule this soon! Here's a link to the issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1951 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1951 I'll