[victorwu]

Thanks for the feedback regarding editing merge requests. In this release, we brought inline editing to issues. (So you don't have to do a full page load, like you mentioned.) So we will definitely bring this concept to merge requests at a later release.

Regarding searching by approvers, we definitely recognize it's a common flow. And we've documented it in an issue. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1951. We hope to work on it soon.

[victorwu]

Inline editing is important design direction we are heading toward. The benefit is that you don't have to reload the entire page. And of course you can do single tasks, like updating labels / milestones / titles / descriptions all independently and separately, providing a more web-app-like experience, instead of a website experience. Ultimately, it's more usable and efficient.

In particular for the issue / merge request description areas, we want to get to a more collaborative design in the future when you can see other users making changes in super near-real-time, almost like Google docs. Currently, our issue descriptions already are updated in real-time, but it takes a few seconds for you to see updates. So we are working hard in this direction and we appreciate the validation that inline editing makes sense.