Allow to star groups (and subgroups)

Problem to solve

As a developer with special debugging and problem solving skills, I'm assigned to lots of different projects on our server.
While acting as a firefighter, I see tons of projects in my projects overview page. It's hard to find the projects and groups I'm personally working in.

For projects, I can star a project and mark it as favorite.
This feature is missing for groups and subgroups.

Further details

Here are three use cases / reasons for this feature:

  1. Projects can be stared and thus marked as favorite projects. To organize the quick access to groups and subgroups, it would be nice to allow staring (sub-)groups too.
    This would also add orthogonality to GitLab.

  2. Many projects are split into multiple projects. Thus, the important entry point to work in is not a single project, it's at least a subgroup.

    Example structure:

    • Customer project 1 <= this would be stared
      • Libs
        • Library Project 1
        • Library Project 2
        • Library Project 3
      • Main Project
      • Specification
      • Documentation

  3. This need is strengthened by moving many GitLab core features from project to group level like:

    • Epics
    • Group Milestones

Proposal

  • Add a button to star a group / subgroup.
  • Add a tab / view to the groups listing to show only stared (sub)groups.
  • Add an entry to the user settings to select "stared groups" as dashboard default.

Further enhancement:

  • Allow pinned (sub-)groups.
    (The pinned project feature is currently in discussion.)

Images

Projects (star button) Projects (starred location) Groups (button) Groups (location)
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What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Links / references

This could be interesting together with pinned projects.

Edited by Daniel Mora