Add configurable number of "last verified" per tag on the home page

[canny]

Currently the last verified column on the home page of the broker shows when the last verification was run.
It would be great if on the home page you could see the latest verification result for a number of tags of interest, for example master and prod.

https://pact.canny.io/admin/board/feature-requests/p/add-configurable-number-of-last-verified-per-tag-on-the-home-page

[canny]

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Phil Endsley - June 22, 2020

This would be a huge improvement for us.

We're just rolling Pact out across teams in our company, and this isn't something they all understand right away. Since all of our development happens in feature branches, 95% of the time, the "dashboard" view is just showing verification results for a feature branch.

Because of this, it's almost meaningless to us

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Beth - June 22, 2020

This makes sense to me.

I've been considering allowing the configuration of "important tags" to allow the UI to show the tags that are most relevant to the user. eg. you might want to see the verifications for "master" and "prod". This sounds like a good use case for it.

Something that one of our Pactflow customers did is create their own dashboard using the "matrix" Pact build badges, that allow you to specify the consumer tag and the provider tag, and see the status of the pact verification between them. That might be a useful intermediate state.

Here's the link to the badge docs. https://docs.pact.io/pact_broker/advanced_topics/provider_verification_badges#with-consumer-and-provider-tags

Something that's also on the back burner (there's an issue in canny for it) is to duplicate the tags functionality with "branches" and "environments". This would make it easier for the UI to know which verifications were important to show.

Antonello Caboni - June 22, 2020

We have considered and would still consider a custom dashboard based on the broker’s API, but at the same time having two tools has disadvantages.

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Beth - March 11, 2021

I'm replacing tags with explicit branches, and the ability to nominate which is the "main development branch" for each pacticipant. The index page will then be able to show the pact/result for the main branches.

[YOU54F]

Beth - September 30, 2021

Working on this in the background. The latest broker version has some improvements to the UI already.