Feature proposal: GitLab Bookmarks

Description

GitLab Bookmarks make your life easier with the ability to bookmark threads into a list that you can recover from the UI. Did you find something interesting? Add it to your list!

• Goal: Enhance your workflow and find issues and MRs faster by bookmarking the threads you want to follow.

Proposal

• Add a button to issues and MRs we want to bookmark
• Create a new page in GitLab to display the links we bookmarked (start with issues and merge request, and expand later to projects, snippets, boards, etc).

[Maybe we can use the same star rating system we use for starred projects and improve from there?]

Links / references

Documentation blurb

Overview

• What is it: GitLab Bookmark is a way to keep track of issues and MRs without having to subscribe to them.
• Who can use it: every GitLab user
• Why: To make it easier to find issues and MRs you think are interesting without subscribing to them (therefore receiving tons of emails)
• How:
  • Create a button in issues and MRs
  • Create a page to display bookmarked items

Use cases

• I want to go back to this issue when I need to follow the process discussed there, but I don't want to subscribe and receive tons of emails for each update. I also don't want it in my todo list, bc there's nothing to do there. I bookmark it and I can recover from the bookmark list anytime I want.

In the future, we can expand the feature to bookmark other stuff, and we can display how may times that page was bookmarked.

Feature checklist

Make sure these are completed before closing the issue, with a link to the relevant commit.

• Feature assurance
• Documentation
• Added to features.yml

/label feature proposal

/cc @victorwu for evaluation :)