Issue 976: Support user-preference initial page
Status:  Accepted
Owner: ----
Reported by madco...@gmail.com, May 22, 2011
In a company that uses git and gerrit for many unrelated projects and languages (e.g., Flash, PHP, Python, Android, iOS, etc), the "All -> Open" dashboard list can get quite unruly.  I know changes won't show up in the list if you don't have read access to the project, but for many reasons, I don't necessarily think that removing read access is the correct way to allow those unrelated changes to be hidden.  Our intranet gerrit server is configured to allow any registered user to view and comment on all changes.

The current default page when first logging in (or visiting the / URI) is "#mine", or "My -> Changes".  What I don't like about this page is that the reviews are sorted by creation time, not update time.  It also includes other things that I may not be interested in at the time:  if I'm going through current reviews, I'm not interested in seeing anything "recently closed", or anything "started by" me.  This list is also limited to a smaller list than my configured "rows per page" setting.  And since I usually end up on the "All open" page, it's somewhat annoying that the default/initial subtab set that is displayed always goes back to "My", so to get back to the All Open list requires two clicks (should really remember the super-tab of the last header link that was clicked, and keep that as the initial selection within the same session).

The "My -> Watched Changes" page seems to be the best way to get just the projects I'm interested in, while still allowing developers to browse changes in other projects if they wish.  Which brings me to the actual feature request :) ...

It would be nice to allow each user to configure their own initial page to be displayed by default (instead of "#mine"), which might involve a more complex search filter than just those linked in the gerrit header.  Maybe a set of canned defaults like those already in the header, plus an "Other" option that would let the user enter their own search filter.  It might even be useful to let the user configure multiple "bookmarks" or "saved search filters" that can be recalled easily.
May 23, 2011
#1 sop@google.com
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Status: Accepted
Feb 22, 2012
Project Member #2 mf...@codeaurora.org
"What I don't like about this page is that the reviews are sorted by creation time, not update time. "

I think that this is a misfeature in its own right, and perhaps it should just be fixed?  It would be simple.