See trend of artifact sizes overtime

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Release notes

There's no way of seeing how the sizes of artifacts are trending over time. This makes it difficult to see if specific MRs or commits make the binary size jump. This would add the ability to see these metrics over time.

Problem to solve

Originally reported in https://twitter.com/detly/status/1551842099427155968?s=20&t=We4JA-jJNq5IY9II5aiMVw. Summary:

  1. They are building a firmware in a CI job.
  2. The firmware "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/ase-openwrt/openwrt/fw" is stored in an archive artifact.
  3. They inspect the size of the firmware and output it as a reports:metrics
  4. They might move the artifact into a package later on, but it’s not explicitly mentioned in the email.
  5. What they are really asking is to see the trend of the metric over time. (1.b).

Intended users

User experience goal

The user should be able to track the binary size of CI artifacts over time.

Proposal

Since the metrics report conforms to OpenMetrics, I think it is reasonable for the customer to expect some ability to view the trend of the metric over time.

Further details

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Availability & Testing

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Feature Usage Metrics

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

What is the type of buyer?

Is this a cross-stage feature?

What is the competitive advantage or differentiation for this feature?

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