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As a user, I want to be notified by todos that only have any pending actions on them
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Can you explain further what you mean by "pending actions on them"? We are working to simplify and streamline our notifications and todos in GitLab. In particular, the current thinking is that they are very similar. A "notification" is an email, and a "todo" is a something that GitLab calls your attention to in the Web UI to take action on. So mechanically, they are very similar and we would like to harmonize them.
If I have a merge request where I am added as an approver and that code is merged in, then I don't want it to show up on my todos. A merge request has a specified amount of approvals required and when that threshold is hit and the code is merged, there is no work to be done. It is no longer a todo but a done. Unfortunately todos doesn't work this way and become useless for senior members who get listed as approvals for many merge requests.
In terms of combining them with notifications, I agree. I just need a web place to see all the "pending" action items I need to work on. A web notification feature should be the place to see all the pending notifications left for me (similar to how it would work on email except you can't expire emails).
Can you explain further what you mean by "pending actions on them"? We are working to simplify and streamline our notifications and todos in GitLab. In particular, the current thinking is that they are very similar. A "notification" is an email, and a "todo" is a something that GitLab calls your attention to in the Web UI to take action on. So mechanically, they are very similar and we would like to harmonize them.
Our latest discussion is in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/48787.