PoC: Task List Update Conflicts

A strategy for handling task list change conflicts:

Update the issue description and show an error message when the task list is updated from a stale copy of the description.

See #19745 (moved)

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Alice views an issue containing a task list:

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Alice checks off some task list items:

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Bob views the issue, adds more items to the list, and saves the updated description:

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Alice attempts to check off another item, but is presented with a message explaining that the issue was changed by another user:

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The issue description updated automatically, so Alice is free to continue checking off list items:

Changed title: PoC: Update the issue description when the task list is stale → PoC: Task List Update Conflicts

Mentioned in issue #19745 (moved)

Added 1 commit:

• e2d11291 - Cleanup fetching original issue

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I like the idea of this PoC. So we need specs, and the same implementation for MR.

Resolved all discussions

Added ~164274 label

Reassigned to @deckar01

Added 1476 commits:

• e2d11291...579383ef - 1473 commits from branch gitlab-org:master
• 67cd0c64 - Update the issue description when the task list is stale
• da7a87f6 - Cleanup fetching original issue
• abebad53 - Debounce task list updates in a promise chain

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@vsizov I'm probably not going to invest any time in testing this. Closing this since the concept has been fleshed out.

Status changed to closed

mentioned in merge request !8567 (merged)