abstain review status does not remove proposals from my reviews

Bug #1009506 reported by Xavier (Open ERP)
6
This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

I was looking at a (pretty big) project's review dashboard (also pretty big). In this dashboard, there are many merge proposals which fall outside of the areas I can help in, but they need to remain in the project itself as other contributors may review them. I'd just like them not to clutter my own board, as they take significant space and make it harder for me to see how the branches I review evolve (since launchpad's web UI isn't much help there).

For the first time I tried the "abstain" review type in case this would prove useful to review.

I fail to see how it could be less useful: not only does the review remain but it gets moved to the "Reviews I am doing" section of my dashboard even though I specifically said (or tried to say) I couldn't/didn't want to review it.

I would suggest the "Abstain" status to either:
* Remove the review altogether from the dashboard
* (better) Move the review to a brand new section or to the existing "Other reviews I am not actively reviewing" (which is at the bottom and mostly out of the way)

Furthermore, ideally, when a review has been requested for a team the user is part of, the team's review request should be left as-is, it should *not* be changed to "Abstain"

Tags: code-review
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: code-review
summary: - Mis-handling of the "abstain" review status
+ abstain review status does not remove proposals from my reviews
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.