Support providing a (set of?) URL(s) from a job to render as an external link in the job view
Problem to solve
I have CI jobs which report to external resources (dashboards mainly). I'd like to provide a link from the job output or as an additional field to artifacts to read labeled URL(s) from a file to render on the sidebar of the job view page.
Intended users
Further details
External code coverage renderers/services (e.g., codecov.io), external dashboards collating results from external testing resources (e.g., CDash).
Proposal
Something like
jobname:
artifacts:
urls: path/to/url/file.txtThe file format is not of much consequence to me. Something simple like the metrics.txt is fine:
https://example.com/some-page Text describing the link
https://example.com/some-other-page Other textPermissions and Security
No different than to run a job. Links should be rendered with nofollow and any other "don't follow by default" attributes to prevent crawlers from inferring endorsement or the like.
Documentation
Add documentation for the new mechanism to the CI YAML reference documentation.
Testing
Probably not that much different than other artifact testing.
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
URLs for resources associated with jobs can be rendered from GitLab.
What is the type of buyer?
CE. Doesn't seem like anything that would be enterprise-y to me. Not useful to our deployment without it being in CE (EE pricing can't work for us since we have open registration).