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Type:
Suggestion
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Component/s: Pull Requests
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When a reviewer starts a review in a Pull Request, Bitbucket correctly displays a blue dot indicator on the reviewer avatar inside the individual PR view to indicate that the reviewer has pending comments. However, this pending-review indicator is not surfaced in any Pull Request summary or dashboard views (e.g., "Pull requests assigned to me" or the repository PR list).
Missing Blue Dot Indicator
- Open any Pull Request where you are assigned as a reviewer.
- Click Start review button.
- Add one or more inline comments.
- Do NOT publish the review.
- Navigate back to PR Summary/Dashboard view (Pull Requests assigned to you).
- Observe that no indicator is present to show that this PR has pending comments.
- The PR summary/dashboard view should display a visual indicator (e.g., blue dot or equivalent state) showing that the reviewer has an active pending review.
- Pending review state is only visible inside the PR detail view. No indication exists in PR list view.
Impact:
Reviewers lack centralized visibility into PRs with their pending unpublished comments, increasing cognitive load and manual tracking effort.
This leads to forgotten or delayed reviews, slowing down merges and negatively affecting team delivery timelines.
Proposed Solution:
Show a clear “pending review” marker (like the current blue dot or a small badge) for the logged-in reviewer on all PR list and dashboard pages.
Also add a simple filter like “PRs with my pending review” so reviewers can quickly see and finish any reviews they haven’t published yet.