Design: Show the synced status of manifest projects - Initial explorations

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Problem to solve

As an Application Operator, I would like to know the status of the manifest project and what has been already synced by the agent, so I can understand and debug my system.

Provide information about:

• the manifest project version being active in the cluster
• the manifest project HEAD
• a diff between the two if it exists
• in the event of a sync error, show the error
• alternatively, show the sync logs similar to the runner

Intended users

• Allison (Application Ops)

User experience goal

Show the information described above either under the manifest project's pages or under the Agent configuration project's pages.

Proposal

In the file list

From @ggillies

It would be even cooler if when you browsed the manifest repo in GitLab through the files view, you had the sync state (or a tick/cross) next to each valid manifest file in your current view.

On the project homepage

• show the status of the manifest project
  • could this be an image badge that users can add to their README or shall we make it a widget?
  • status can be running, success (given version) or error (if last sync failed)
• provide a link to more details

Details page

• show when sync event happened
• show status of events
• provide drill down into logs around an event
• could this be the basis of a deployment board for the future?

Further details

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Availability & Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

Is this a cross-stage feature?

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