Address the naming of the your work context

Problem to solve

There are differing opinions on what the Your work should semantically be defined as. The bigger problem is the purpose of the Your work context is unclear. The sidebar containing similar items to groups and projects, while missing the pinned section is leading to confusion.

Proposal

Rename the context of Your work to Home to better match user mental models around where they expect to land when clicking on the logo in the top left corner.

Complexities

Hovering over the Tanuki shows Homepage in the tooltip, but really that can mean 1 of 2 things.

  • When signed in it will take you to Your work
  • When not signed in it brings you to the sign in page (self-managed) or https://about.gitlab.com/ (saas)

Conceptually, everything in the Your work context is based on the user.

  • Projects / Groups are based on membership and access
  • Issues / Merge requests default filters set to a user Assignee=me or Review requested=me
  • To-Do List only shows mentions or to-dos created by a user
  • Milestones are based on the projects that a user is a member of
  • Snippets are only ones created by a user
  • Activity is primarily filtered by places a user is a member of or uniquely has chosen to follow
  • Workspaces belong only to a user
  • Environments are populated based on user selection
  • Operations is populated based on user selections
  • Security is customized based on user selections

In the search modal we use me instead of you

  • Issues assigned to me
  • Issues I've created
  • Merge requests assigned to me
  • Merge requests that I'm a reviewer
  • Merge requests that I've created

However, this goes against our docs guidance

me, myself, mine

Do not use first-person singular. Use you, we, or us instead. (Vale rule: FirstPerson.yml)

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/documentation/styleguide/word_list.html#me-myself-mine

Edited by Austin Regnery