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Add an owner of a runner in the admin and group area runners table

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Problem to solve

There is no way to determine which project was the first one to be assigned to a specific runner today. The only one who may remember is the user who created the runner. Having this information can help administrators define an owner to help get an understanding of who would be responsible for maintenance updates. Only admins have permissions to view the full list of shared project runners, but have to view details of the runner to see the list. Developers have no access to see this today.

Proposal

🚨 This issue is dependent on using the new list view documented in Improve the admin runner table design to make u... (#343133 - closed)

Designs in design management

  • Add an owner column the to the Runners view that defines the project, group, or instance that the runner was originally attached to.
  • Link to the project or group that is listed
runner type owner column value notes
instance runner administrator if runner type = instance, then display text adminstrator
group group-name if runner type = group, then display the group name
project project-name If runner type = project, then display the project name and the number of shared projects
PM brainstorming admin-runners-associate-column

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Edited by Gina Doyle