Surface context on the workspace start page when creating a new or opening an existing workspace
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Description
Problem to solve
Currently, when users create a new workspace or open an existing workspace, they go through the workspace start page (Checking, Creating, etc) without surfacing the original context.
Sometimes, opening a workspace can take up to 5 minutes and users can be lost as we're showing a generic page for any context or repository they open.
Proposal
There are several improvements we could make on the workspace start page (see relevant discussion (internal)), but a good MVC (minimal viable change) here could be to simply reuse the context element as we do with the rest of the workspace start phases (STOPPED, TIMED-OUT, etc.).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the workspace start page and its context element, then trace the create and open phases described in the issue. Done means the original workspace or repository context is visible during Checking and Creating, matching the existing context shown in the STOPPED and TIMED-OUT phases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100