Last updated time incorrect for projects in group view

Summary

When viewing projects and subgroups tab in the group home view, the last updated time is incorrect. For example, I have a project testing-dev-project in a group. It displays that it was last updated 1 week ago. Using the inspector, the time is Dec 28, 2018. However, if I query the project with the API, I get the "last_activity_at":"2018-10-26T12:46:34.372-07:00". You can also check by going to the Project -> Activity or Project -> Settings -> Audit Events.

Using the rails console, the project's updated_at time corresponds to the last instance update. The project's last_activity_at time has the last date a user updated the project.

This was raised by a customer in https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/110985 (internal use only), when they updated their version to 11.6.1-ee. I recreated this issue on my test instance at 11.6.3-ee. The last updated time for the projects seems to not reflect the last project activity, but the last instance update.

Steps to reproduce

Look at when your projects have been updated in the UI versus the last_activity_at in the GET /projects/ API endpoint, or what you see in the Project -> Activity or Project -> Settings -> Audit Events.

What is the current bug behavior?

The UI listing of projects in a group does not display the correct last updated time

What is the expected correct behavior?

The UI listing of projects in a group should display the correct last updated time, from the last_activity_at date for the project.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

List of projects on a group homepage:

Inspecting the code for that view:

When I query the project in the rails console, I get:

irb(main):001:0> project = Project.find 128
=> #<Project id:128 bandlecity/testing-dev-project>
irb(main):002:0> project.updated_at
=> Fri, 28 Dec 2018 13:01:01 PST -08:00
irb(main):003:0> project.last_activity_at
=> Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:46:34 PDT -07:00

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Possible fixes

In the item_stats.vue group component file, the time is set to item.updatedAt - maybe change to the last_activity_at time.

cc/ @jeremy