On Mon Aug 17 19:17:25 2026 +0000, Alex Henrie wrote:
I originally started assigning all of my MRs to myself to make them appear in my [GitLab to-do list](https://gitlab.winehq.org/dashboard/todos). However, in practice I haven't been using the to-do list feature. If people are interpreting the presence of an assignee to mean that the MR is a draft, I'll stop doing it. Conceptually, it seems to me that the absence of an assignee _should_ indicate that the MR's author has abandoned the MR and would like someone else to take it over. In other words, in my mind having an assignee means that the author believes that the MR is ready or that the author is working through feedback, and not having an assignee means that the MR is more like a draft. But since GitLab doesn't set the assignee automatically, most people don't ever set it, and in practice we can't use the absence of an assignee to infer that an MR is orphaned. FWIW you can also use the "add to-do item" button just below the PR subject line.
-- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/11568#note_149095