display home.md instead of README.md if missing
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Release notes
Support home.md as repository preview file alongside index.* and README.* files.
Problem to solve
GitLab Wikis are not editable by the public. This long standing problem has somewhat of a workaround: mirror the wiki into a Git repository and accept pull requests there. This works, but then the home.md frontpage doesn't get previewed in that repository, which makes it less useful.
Proposal
In gitlab-foss#18933 (closed), index.* was added next to README.* to the list of files that would get previewed in a directory. Add home.* to that list, so that GitLab wiki replicas are properly displayed.
Another approach is to make the preview page editable, see #20754.
Intended users
It seems those might be targeted by this:
... but it seems to me there's one persona missing from your list, and that's a non-registered GitLab user, the web person that navigates around and finds the project.
Feature Usage Metrics
No idea.
Does this feature require an audit event?
No idea.