[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":786},["ShallowReactive",2],{"/en-us/blog/gitlab-todos-feature-highlight":3,"navigation-en-us":33,"banner-en-us":432,"footer-en-us":442,"blog-post-authors-en-us-Douglas Alexandre":684,"blog-related-posts-en-us-gitlab-todos-feature-highlight":698,"assessment-promotions-en-us":737,"next-steps-en-us":776},{"id":4,"title":5,"authorSlugs":6,"body":8,"categorySlug":9,"config":10,"content":14,"description":8,"extension":22,"isFeatured":12,"meta":23,"navigation":24,"path":25,"publishedDate":20,"seo":26,"stem":30,"tagSlugs":31,"__hash__":32},"blogPosts/en-us/blog/gitlab-todos-feature-highlight.yml","Gitlab Todos Feature Highlight",[7],"douglas-alexandre",null,"company",{"slug":11,"featured":12,"template":13},"gitlab-todos-feature-highlight",false,"BlogPost",{"title":15,"description":16,"authors":17,"heroImage":19,"date":20,"body":21,"category":9},"Feature Highlight: Todos","In this blog post I'll guide you through the Todos feature we introduced in GitLab 8.5 and also tell you how this feature came to life.",[18],"Douglas Alexandre","https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1749684608/Blog/Hero%20Images/taking-notes.jpg","2016-03-02","\n\nIn this blog post I'll guide you through the \"Todos\" feature we introduced in\n[GitLab 8.5](/releases/2016/02/22/gitlab-8-5-released/)\nand also tell you how this feature came to life.\nWe'll also talk about how you can contribute to GitLab.\n\n\u003C!-- more -->\n\n### First let’s look at this feature\n\nWhen you log into GitLab, you'll want to see where you should spend your time,\nwhere your team members need help, where you need to take some action, or what\nyou need to keep an eye on. All without the mess of a huge pile of e-mail\nnotifications.\n\nWhen an issue or merge request is assigned to you, or when you are `@mentioned`\nin a comment, this triggers a notification and you may get an e-mail, depending\non your notification settings. Starting from GitLab 8.5, these actions will\nalso add a notice in your Todos list, which you can access by clicking the\nround gray icon next to the search bar in the upper right corner.\n\n![Todos screenshot showing a list of items to check on](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/todos-screenshot.jpg)\n\nYou can then respond to the todo by performing an action to the corresponding\nissue or merge request. 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There is just one todo per issue or merge request, you won’t be\nannoyed repeatedly.\n\nNext, let’s see how this feature came to life.\n\n### How we developed this feature\n\nIt was just a few weeks before the 8.5 release when\n[Dmitry](https://twitter.com/dzaporozhets) asked me to work on this feature.\nIn fact, that was a lot of work to be done in such a short time and I actually\ndelivered this task on the last release candidate before our release day.\nAs it turned out, people were quite surprised and happy to have this feature in\n8.5.\n\nThere had been a long discussion about this feature, but no one had touched it\nyet. The original proposal was very complicated, there were a lot of comments\non the issue too, with a more active discussion in the last two months.\n\nFinally, after considering all the options,\n[Dmitry commented on the issue][comment] and greatly simplified it.\n\nI was excited about taking on the challenge. Not only because I knew it would\nbe an important feature, but it would also be a feature that most people will\nuse every day. This is the second major feature I've worked on since I started\nat GitLab in December. Previously, I had worked on the GitHub import project\nwhich came out in GitLab 8.4.\n\nI needed to learn quite a lot of the GitLab codebase in order to create this\nfeature. And then, while I was reading the code, I was surprised to discover it\nwas going to be much easier than I thought. My epiphany was that we already had\nthe Activity feed system in place which I could reuse. As it turned out, it was\ngoing to be very easy to implement this feature.\n\nAt the beginning, I spent the first week reading the code, understanding how\nthe system worked, discovering the points that we needed to trigger a todo. I\nwrote some guidelines about what I needed to achieve and then I started writing\nthe actual code by the end of the week. Yep, most of the coding was done in one\nweek.\n\nAt first, I needed to investigate how the Activity feed system works.\n\n![Screenshot of activity feed](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/activity-feed-screenshot.jpg)\n\nThen, I plugged in another service to trigger the todo when an issue or merge\nrequest is assigned to someone, or when someone is `@mentioned` in a comment or\nthe issue description. After this, I just needed to make sure that when someone\ncompleted whatever they thought is needed on the issue or merge request, the\ntodo will be marked as **Done**.\n\nDepending on the action that someone made on the issue or merge request, we\nneed to know exactly what attributes were changed. This is specially important\nto know when Todos are automatically marked as **Done**.\n\nTo know what changed inside a issue or merge request, we used the\n[Rails ActiveModel::Dirty API][dirty] that allows us to quick track what\nattributes on a model have changed, even after the model was saved.\n\nThe `ActiveModel::Dirty` works very well, except that it doesn't track changes\non associations. So how we determine what changed inside the association? For\nexample, how to check if a label was added, or removed from an issue or merge\nrequest? To accomplish this, we came with a boring solution, where we receive\nthe old items of the association through a parameter, and compare it with\nthe current association to check if something has changed.\n\nThe method that checks if at least one valid attribute has changed, is the\nfollowing:\n\n```ruby\ndef has_changes?(issuable, options = {})\n  valid_attrs = [:title, :description, :assignee_id, :milestone_id, :target_branch]\n\n  attrs_changed = valid_attrs.any? do |attr|\n    issuable.previous_changes.include?(attr.to_s)\n  end\n\n  old_labels = options[:old_labels]\n  labels_changed = old_labels && issuable.labels != old_labels\n\n  attrs_changed || labels_changed\nend\n```\n\nA quick note about this code snippet is that it will run _after_ the model was\nsaved, so `previous_changes` is the method that we need to call, and it returns\na hash with the attributes that were changed before the model was saved.\n\nWe can see on the following snippet that other GitLab features, like\nthe system note and the notification service, also use this API to trigger an\naction after certain attributes have changed:\n\n```ruby\nif issue.previous_changes.include?('assignee_id')\n  create_assignee_note(issue)\n  notification_service.reassigned_issue(issue, current_user)\n  todo_service.reassigned_issue(issue, current_user)\nend\n```\n\nTo get an idea about the points that trigger an action related to Todos,\nyou can take a look at the source code of the [TodoService] class, that\ndescribes the expected behavior for each of these points.\n\nMy colleague, [Douwe](https://twitter.com/DouweM), guided me through some of\nthese edge cases and helped me a lot with daily code reviews. Together we\nconsidered the aspects of the functionality. I had to make many changes during\nthe review period, but that worked out well in the end.\n\nSome people asked for changes which we thought didn't fit for what we were\ntrying to achieve. There was for example a request to be notified of Todos on\ncommits. We ultimately decided against this request since there are no clear\nactions to take on a commit, except for replying to a comment. Most of the time\nyou’re actually working on an issue or a merge request, this is where the action\nhappens.\n\n### About that name\n\nThere was a long discussion about naming the feature. In the beginning this\nfeature was called 'Notification System'. Then 'Action Center'. Then 'Todos'.\nThen 'Tasks', and finally 'Task Queue' was chosen.\n\nBut Douwe and Sytse discussed the naming for the umpteenth time, and concluded\nthat 'Todos' would be the best name since 'Tasks' is already used (by us and\nGitHub) for the Markdown checklist.\n\nTodo makes more sense to me than a Task, you just need to take a look at it.\nTasks are obligations. A Todo is just a reminder, and as such, maybe it is\nrelevant for you and you'll take a look or maybe you'll just mark it as done.\n\n### Conclusion\n\nI'm really happy to have worked on a feature that people will use every day!\nIt's a simple feature and even though we've only been using it a few days,\nwe can't imagine how we managed to work without it.\n\nThis Tweet from a user pretty much sums it up.\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\u003Cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gitlab\">@gitlab\u003C/a>'s new ToDos feature is simply amazing. 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