Include statistics section in project API for public projects
Problem to solve
Currently it seems that when requesting project information through an API, statistics is not available if you do not have permissions over that project ("reporter" permissions are enough), even when setting statistics=true. I tested the API being authenticated.
This is strange because in UI that information is available to everyone, publicly, for public projects.
Intended users
Anyone using the API who is interested in statistics.
Proposal
Make "statistics" simply public and available for all public projects.
Permissions and Security
Statistics information is not sensitive and for public repositories is already available through other means, but much less efficiently (one could clone a repository to obtain commit count, sizes, or fetch all artifacts).
Activity
mentioned in issue #39037 (closed)
mentioned in issue #39152 (closed)
mentioned in issue #103397 (closed)
mentioned in issue #121479 (closed)
mentioned in issue #193026 (closed)
mentioned in issue #195098 (closed)
mentioned in issue #196462 (closed)
mentioned in issue #197796 (closed)
mentioned in issue #198977 (closed)
mentioned in issue #201613 (closed)
added sectiondev label
added Category:System Access label
mentioned in issue #15807
added devopsgovern sectionsec labels and removed devopsmanage sectiondev labels
added groupauthentication label and removed groupauthentication and authorization [DEPRECATED] label
added grouporganizations label and removed groupauthentication label
removed devopssoftware supply chain security label
removed sectionsec label
removed Category:System Access label
added devopstenant scale label
added sectioninfrastructure platforms label
changed milestone to %Backlog
added Category:Groups & Projects label
added gitlab-org#9479 as parent epic
added workflowvalidation backlog label
