Mark merge request as "draft" with a single click

Make draft merge request feature discoverable

Problem

Marking an MR as draft/wip is great to signal to others that the work in on-going and not ready for review, however, the feature has low discoverability and using is not intuitive unless you go into edit mode and read all the text on the page.

Proposal

Update the multi-action dropdown button to offer the ability to "mark as draft" (dropdown would offer 3 total options, along with "close" and "report abuse")

Expanded	On form

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• state when MR is NOT in DRAFT mode:

Mark as draft
Close merge request
Report abuse

• state of button when MR is in DRAFT mode

Mark as ready
Close merge request
Report abuse

Original proposal

Option 1	Option 2
Update the multi-action dropdown button to offer the ability to "mark as draft" (dropdown would offer 3 total options, along with "close" and "report abuse")	Offer a new button in the MR screen

Release Notes

Creating a merge request is a great way to share your contribution with others and get the conversation started. Even if the code is not ready to be merged. In order to signal to others that a contribution is not ready to be reviewed/merged, we can prefix the merge request title with draft (formerly known as wip). This is useful, however, it entails going into edit mode, navigating to the merge request title, and typing the required prefix.

To make it easier to use this feature, we have introduced the Mark as draft button to merge requests. With a single click, you can indicate your work is in progress and not ready to be merged/reviewed.

UX Research

In the Category Maturity Testing for Code Review, the WIP feature for Merge Requests is not easily discoverable. The most common ways participants signaled the in-progress status of the MR was by 1) closing the MR or 2) applying a label. Dovetail insight