"/assignee" quick action and assignee dropdown show different result

Summary

Our assignee dropdown placed on the right sidebar and the /assignee quick action show different list of people.

Here are two screenshots created on the same issue without reloading the page.

Screenshot_20170831_192540 Screenshot_20170831_192557

Issue where I faced this last time was: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14169

I don't know which one is broken, but they are at least inconsistent.

The user I was searching for was active in the issue.
So I think the quick action shows correct result.

Slack discussion: https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C0GQHHPGW/p1504168121000198

Proposal

  • Show issue participants in the autocomplete

  • Allow users to type the full username and hit enter

/cc @winh @DouweM

Edited by Taurie Davis