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Track clicked templates for pipeline empty state experiment

Nicolas Dular requested to merge nicolasdular/track-ci-template-usage into master

What does this MR do?

Issue: gitlab-org/growth/team-tasks#310 (closed)

This is an experiment to list CI templates when there is no CI set up for a project yet. In this MR we add tracking of the templates that get used by tracking the click on them.

Description MR
List templates in empty pipeline state !57286 (merged)
Add "Hello World" template to empty pipeline experiment !58649 (merged)
Track usage of templates 👈 you are here

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How to test locally

Note: There might be a bit of a caching issue with feature flags & experiments that other reviewers already experienced that requires restarting the gdk if you want to check out both versions.

  • checkout branch
  • yarn
  • echo 'Feature.enable(:pipeline_empty_state_templates)' | bin/rails c
  • Create or go to a project without a .gitlab-ci.yml
  • Disabled "Default to Auto DevOps pipeline" in the CI/CD settings of your project (http://localhost:3000/<group_name>/<project_name>/-/settings/ci_cd
  • Go to CI/CD -> Pipelines (http://localhost:3000/<group_name>/<project_name>/-/pipelines

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Availability and Testing

Security

If this MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization and authentication methods and other items described in the security review guidelines:

  • Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
  • The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
  • Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team
Edited by Nicolas Dular

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