a new system to remind you of your outstanding review/feedback/needinfo requests has just gone live on bugzilla.mozilla.org.

featuring…

nightly reminders:

the ability to defer individual reminders for up to 7 days:

the ability for managers to watch all of their reports:

the finer details, from bug 892615:

• replaces the current RequestWhiner extension
• per product configuration of nagging frequency
  • defaults to 7 days to match request whiner
  • can be set to 0 to disable reminders for that product
• all review and feedback requests are included
• needinfo requests are only included if the requestee has editbugs
• adds user preference to allow requestee to opt-out

• reminder email’s subject contains summary of flags
  • [Bugzilla] Your Outstanding Requests (14 review, 1 feedback, 1 needinfo)
• requester is included
• age of request in email is relative
  • “last week” / “several months ago” / …
• includes links to opt-out

• adds ability to defer a reminder
• separate page, only linked from the reminder emails
• maximum of 7 days deferral

• adds ability to watch reminders for users
• single email with a report of all users watched
• includes users who opt-out
• no restrictions on who can watch, or on who you can watch
• includes an indicator if the requestee has deferred the reminder