[feature]: Find issues that can be worked on based on blockedBy relation and status of blocking issue

[glassp]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the existing issues

Summary

There should be a filter for issues that are currently unblocked (relation: blockedBy & those related issue in status DONE) Alternatively it would be fine to have some new status BLOCKED that gets automatically set to TODO if all blocking issues are DONE or CANCELED

Why should this be worked on?

Currently it is not easy to find issues that can be worked on without clicking on all issues and checked if they are blocked by another issue and then check if the blocking issues are done or not

[vihar]

@glassp, this is a great feature request. We will shortly begin working on a PRD and share it with the community.

In the meantime, if you don't mind sharing, could you provide some insight into the use case that prompted you to make this feature request? Perhaps providing an example could assist us in better understanding your needs.

[glassp]

Feature request reason

Im working on a project X but I have dependencies on some helper libraries that have their own seperate project I need to know on which tickets I can work in Project X, even if I don't have access to the helper lib project.

Like when a project manager with access to both projects sets the issue on project x as blocked by an issue on the helper library it is in needs to be visible to anyone with access to the issue on Project X that the issue is blocked and if the blocking has been resolved (e.g. blocking issue is done)

Wished mechanics

There are 3 Projects A, B, C With Tickets A-1 ... A-5, B-1... B5 and C-1 ... C5 and the developer for a given project (which does not have access to the other projects) wants to find the tickets that can be worked on.

Lets assume they want to work on Project A but

• A-1 is blocked by B-1 which is in Progress,
• A-2 is blocked by B-2 which is blocked by C-2, and C-2 is done but B-2 is still open
• A-3 is blocked by B-3 which is done
• A-4 is the only open ticket that is not blocked by anything
• A-5 is in progress

It should be possible to create a fiter or a view that shows all tickets in project A that can be actively worked on (open & not blocked) So in this example I'd want a view that shows

• A-3
• A-4

Since they are in TODO and their blocking tickets are done or they were not blocked

Nice to have extra feature

If a list of all tickets that block others is feasible that would be nice. But having a list of possible workload is more important, especially when working with many projects that have dependencies on each other