Notification level in the user profile does not match Group notification level

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Summary

Notification settings of the group main page not reflected in the user profile notification settings -/profile/notifications

Steps to reproduce

Steps to recreate bug where changing notification of a group also affect its sub group:

1. Create a nested group structure you can go as deep as you like. Level0 with subgroup Level1 with subgroup Level2 .
2. Add a user to the top level group Level0. Role does not matter.
3. Now impersonate this user and navigate to the group and change the notification setting.
4. Now navigate to this users -/profile/notifications and notice that both Level0 and Level1 have changed to the setting changed.
5. Go to the sub group Level1 directly and notice that the notification setting has not changed here despite being show like that in the users profile.

Other observation:

1. This behaviour can be replicated down the chain.
2. Making changes to notification settings in the user profile makes tis behaviour stop
3. Making changes directly to the subgroup notification setting makes this behaviour stop

What we have also observed in the customer instance is that we were not able to change the notification settings of the Group in the user profile from watch to the global unless the groups parent group notification settings were changed. However I was not able to reproduce this behaviour in my test instance.

For example

• Parent group has Watch notification settings and in the user profile notification settings for the subgroup of this parent group it shown as watch. When trying to change subgroup notification settings in the user profile nothing happens, when you click the notification settings to global it always stays as watch after page refresh. The only way the subgroup notification setting could be changed from watch to global if parent notification level was changed to global in the main page. Note that changing the subgroup notification settings to global in the main page also did not have any affect on the user notification settings in the profile, it always stayed as watch until the notification level of parent group was changed from watch to global in the main group page.

What is the current bug behavior?

• Notification settings in the User profile notification settings for the group are not reflected in the Group main page.

What is the expected correct behavior?

• Notification settings of the Group main page should reflect in the users notification settings for the Group

Results of GitLab environment info

GitLab 14.10

Possible fixes

N/A

GitLab internal ZD