Product Discovery for Group License Management

Problem to solve

We want to define approved/blacklisted licenses at group level. This creates rules that are applied to any project in the group (also, subgroups).

Target audience

Delaney, our Development Team Lead

Further details

We can reuse a similar approach of the project settings page, but we need to define:

1. which rule has precedence (group/project)?
2. in case is project, do we want to allow enforcement from group level?
3. how users can see rules from project?
4. when looking at the report, how to identify if it is a group/project rule?
5. when adding a new rule from a report, where will it be stored?

Areas we need to cover:

Merge Request Widget

	Cases	Addressed yet?
1	Group maintainer experience	✅
2	Non-group, project maintainer expereince	✅
3	Developer and other non-maintainers experience	✅

License settings / project level

	Cases	Addressed yet?
1	License policy locked	✅
2	License policy unlocked	✅
3	Adding a new license	✅

License settings / group level

	Cases	Addressed yet?
1	license policy locked	✅
2	license policy unlicked	✅
3	Add new license	✅
4	Remove license	✅

Pipelines / License report

	Cases	Addressed yet?
1	TBD	TBD

Edge Cases

	Case	Addressed yet?
1	TBD	TBD

Design

Group Settings

Group License Settings

Project Settings

Project License Settings

Project License Settings all group default	Project License Settings 1 license overriden
	Black opacity will not be in the experience, just used to show which license was changed

In MR

MR Widget

License with Group Rule	License without group rule	New license

Badges

Usage	Approved	Blacklisted	New License	Group Level Setting	No group rule set
Minimal of information req.
More information req.
Maximum information req.

Brief Roadmap

MVC	MVC with Group enforcement	Future
Add group license setting page	Add Override settings to Group level license page	Dashboard showing which licenses exist at the group level along with override status
Auto import group licenses into projects when defined at group level	IF licenses are enforced, block changes at the project level.	Instance level enforcement and settings
Project dropdown add Group default option	Existing licenses can no longer be changed in the MR
Licenses that exist at the Group level cannot be removed at the project level	Add approver when new licenses are detected in MR
MR more info modal shows if a license exists at the group level
MR shows group icon when license exists at group level