Save and re-use previous searches in issues list view

Solution

  • Save previous searches in the issues list view.
  • Access and use the previous searches.

Stretch goal

  • Easy share the saved searches with others. Perhaps just copy and pasting as a first iteration?

Problem

People have many different workflows in managing issues and getting things done inside GitLab. Issues are central to that management. We already provide tools such as authors, assignees, labels, weights, and milestones to associate attributes to issues. But users need more powerful tools to surface relevant issues to them. We have subscriptions and notifications. But those are also specific use case. How can we allow users to manage lists of issues that they care about, that they can customize according to their individual workflows, as a final and general "third line of defense" (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21194#note_22887431)? We already have ing issues. (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/27157).