Extended user centric tooltips: Additional context information?
Problem to solve
Via https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/50157 we are improving information shown in the user-related tooltips. These are mostly derived from the user's profile. In same cases, it might be interesting to also show more context-aware information regarding the current page. This could be an issue, epic, MR, …. Right now, these information are not shown in the new tooltip.
Proposal
Let's explore and discuss if we want to show more details in context of the current page. Potential context could be
- Project (Maintainer? Commited?)
- Epic (Author? Assignee?)
- Issue (Author? Assignee?)
- MR (Author? Assignee? Commited?)
- …
We should sync with engineering if that makes showing this tooltip more expensive on the API call and UI side.
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
Besides profile information, in context of issues, epics and merge requests, you see additional details relevant for the specific use cases.
Edited by Andreas Kämmerle