feat: let users pin projects to the dashboard (#3338)

Fixes #3325.

## User-Facing Changes

**🌟 New Features**

- 📌️ **UI**: Users can now pin projects to the dashboard, up to a maximum of
  5 projects ([#2898](SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui#2898)).

## Internal Changes

**✨ Improvements**

- **Data services**: New API endpoints to store and retrieve user
  preferences have been added to support the projects pins ([#85](SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-data-services#85)).

Individual components
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- [`renku-ui 3.16.0`](https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/releases/tag/3.16.0)
- [`renku-data-services 0.3.0`](https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-data-services/releases/tag/v0.3.0)

---------

Co-authored-by: Flora Thiebaut <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Laura <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -1,5 +1,41 @@
 .. _changelog:
 
+0.44.0
+------
+
+Renku ``0.44.0`` introduces pinning projects to the dashboard in RenkuLab.
+
+User-Facing Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**🌟 New Features**
+
+- 📌️ **UI**: Users can now pin projects to the dashboard, up to a maximum of
+  5 projects (`#2898 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2898>`_).
+
+**🐞 Bug Fixes**
+
+- **UI**: Correctly update progress of project indexing (`#2833 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2833>`_).
+- **UI**: Change icons in the Nav bar to use Bootstrap icons (`#2882 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2882>`_).
+- **UI**: Fixed bug that caused Dashboard to reload frequently by handling errors from the ``getSessions`` query in the Dashboard (`#2903 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2903>`_).
+- **UI**: Adjust dropdown menus with anchors nested in buttons (`#2907 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2907>`_).
+- **UI**: Update the workflows documentation link (`#2917 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2917>`_).
+- **UI**: Add whitespace after author name in session commit details (`#2921 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2921>`_).
+
+Internal Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**✨ Improvements**
+
+- **Data services**: New API endpoints to store and retrieve user
+  preferences have been added to support the projects pins (`#85 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-data-services/pull/85>`_).
+
+Individual components
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- `renku-ui 3.16.0 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/releases/tag/3.16.0>`_
+- `renku-data-services 0.3.0 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-data-services/releases/tag/v0.3.0>`_
+
 0.43.0
 ------
 

helm-chart/renku/templates/data-service/deployment.yaml

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ spec:
                   name: {{ .Values.global.db.common.passwordSecretName }}
                   key: password
             - name: KEYCLOAK_URL
-              value: {{ (printf "%s://%s/auth/" (include "renku.http" .) .Values.global.renku.domain) | quote}}
+              value: {{ (printf "%s://%s/auth/" (include "renku.http" .) .Values.global.renku.domain) | quote }}
             - name: KEYCLOAK_TOKEN_SIGNATURE_ALGS
               value: "RS256"
             - name: SERVER_DEFAULTS
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ spec:
             - name: K8S_NAMESPACE
               value: {{ .Release.Namespace | quote }}
             - name: GITLAB_URL
-              value: {{ .Values.global.gitlab.url | quote}}
+              value: {{ .Values.global.gitlab.url | quote }}
+            - name: MAX_PINNED_PROJECTS
+              value: {{ .Values.dataService.maxPinnedProjects | quote }}
             {{- include "certificates.env.python" $ | nindent 12 }}
           volumeMounts:
             - name: server-options

helm-chart/renku/templates/ui/ui-client-deployment-template.yaml

@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ spec:
               value: {{ toJson .Values.ui.client.coreApiVersionConfig | quote }}
             - name: KEYCLOAK_REALM
               value: {{ include "renku.keycloak.realm" . | quote }}
+            - name: USER_PREFERENCES_MAX_PINNED_PROJECTS
+              value: {{ .Values.dataService.maxPinnedProjects | quote }}
           livenessProbe:
             httpGet:
               path: /

helm-chart/renku/values.yaml

@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ ui:
     replicaCount: 1
     image:
       repository: renku/renku-ui
-      tag: "3.15.1"
+      tag: "3.16.0"
       pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
       ## Optionally specify an array of imagePullSecrets.
       ## Secrets must be manually created in the namespace.
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ ui:
     keepCookies: []
     image:
       repository: renku/renku-ui-server
-      tag: "3.15.1"
+      tag: "3.16.0"
       pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
     imagePullSecrets: []
     nameOverride: ""
@@ -1280,14 +1280,14 @@ jena:
       - ReadWriteOnce
     size: 10Gi
   additionalEnvironmentVariables:
-  - name: JVM_ARGS
-    value: -Xmx2G -Xms2G
+    - name: JVM_ARGS
+      value: -Xmx2G -Xms2G
   compacting:
     - name: ADMIN_USER
       value: admin
     ## The 'Mon *-*-* 00:00:00' expression means the process will be run every Monday at 00:00:00. More details at https://github.com/eikek/calev
     - name: COMPACTING_SCHEDULE
-      value: 'Mon *-*-* 00:00:00'
+      value: "Mon *-*-* 00:00:00"
   resources:
     requests:
       cpu: 1000m
@@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ initDb:
 dataService:
   image:
     repository: renku/renku-data-service
-    tag: "0.2.3"
+    tag: "0.3.0"
     pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
   service:
     type: ClusterIP
@@ -1509,6 +1509,8 @@ dataService:
   nodeSelector: {}
   tolerations: []
   affinity: {}
+  # This defines the maximum number of pinned projects in user preferences
+  maxPinnedProjects: 5
 podSecurityContext: {}
 securityContext:
   runAsUser: 1000