Sort starred projects in a meaningful way

• Zendesk ticket: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/10762

Expected behavior

Starred projects should be sorted by something like last activity (like Your Projects page) or by alphabet with group and project name.

Observed behavior

Order appears slightly random - maybe sort of alphabetical but not completely. Certainly not based on last activity.

Next steps

What is the best sorting method? Personally, I expected it to be the same as 'Your Projects' but a customer's user noted it should be alphabetical.

cc/ @dzaporozhets

cc/ @vsizov @rspeicher Thoughts?

Makes sense. I think the current order is just the order in which they were starred, descending from most recently.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/app/controllers/dashboard/projects_controller.rb#L22

Array#sort is called with params[:sort] parameter, but I think we want order/reorder to sort them in the database, don't we?

@JobV Can we schedule for this for a release, please?

Milestone changed to 8.5

Added ~19492 label

Milestone changed to 8.4

Added promised label

mentioned in issue #3799 (closed)

@dzaporozhets what about this case?

Reassigned to @creamzy

Assignee removed

Reassigned to @creamzy

@dblessing @dzaporozhets we need to introduce sorting, but i don't think that it should be the same as on the explore tab.

In this case different matrix are interested. From my perspective it can be:

• Last updated
• Last updated by me
• Owned by me
• Name from A to Z
• Name from Z to A

Maybe you can suggest some sorting parameters as well.

Related issue #3968 (closed)

Assignee removed

mentioned in issue #3968 (closed)

I think it should be sorted by last activity by default with dropdown that allows sort by name, amount of stars and last updated. "Owned by me" might be also good addition. cc @creamzy

I've introduced extra filter inside the sorting

• Owned by anyone
• Owned by me

Added frontend and removed ~19492 labels

Related #3799 (closed)

Reassigned to @rymai

mentioned in merge request !2568 (closed)

Assignee removed

Milestone changed to 8.5

Milestone changed to 8.6

mentioned in merge request !3078 (merged)

Status changed to closed by merge request !3078 (merged)

Status changed to reopened

Reassigned to @dblessing

@dblessing please report back to customer next improvements:

• from 8.6 starred projects are sorted by last activity. Same as "your projects" tab
• also we have now dropdown to sort it differently when necessary

Milestone changed to 8.7

Reported back.

Status changed to closed