Description
The API Owners requested that the features with their gate in the NEEDS_WORK state not be shown. They are basically just skipping over those feature because it is the feature owner's responsibility to resolve the needed work.
I am thinking that this would be done as some kind of filter widget that adds a query term. Or, if we expose the search box, it could be an additional term in the search box.
That query term would need to somehow specify which team it relates to. E.g., pending-review-by:TEAM could mean to exclude NEEDS_WORK because those gates are blocked on the feature owners at that time. To include NEEDS_WORK gates, the term could be changed to something like awaiting-review-by:TEAM. I think that I prefer a single alternate term over using a combination of query terms that could make it tricky for the user to add another term.