Time & Budget for customers, all GitLab pipelines, and duplicating permission groups

This update is mostly about more transparency for customers: a dedicated Time & Budget overview with one-click approvals. On top of that, every GitLab pipeline now shows instead of only merge-request ones, you can duplicate permission groups, and linked tickets show their status as text.

Time & Budget: the new customer overview

Customers want to know how much time is going into their project and where the budget stands — without the full staff view and all its individual entries. That now has its own page.

As a customer you find it in the sidebar under Time & Budget (route /time-budget). Per project it shows you:

• Tracked time per ticket — bundled, so no individual entries and no per-day or per-user breakdown. Unconfirmed drafts (PENDING entries) are left out.
• Budget status — spent and remaining, using the same numbers as the staff view.
• Pending budget approvals — every waiting request with Approve and Reject ready to click. When rejecting, you can add an optional note for the team.

Pending approvals also surface right on the customer dashboard, so a sign-off doesn't get lost in the navigation.

The overview is protected by its own permission: View customer overview (customer-overview:view, category "Customer Overview"). Without it, the page and the menu entry stay hidden.

All GitLab pipelines — not just the ones with an open merge request

The Pipelines view only showed GitLab runs when they were attached to an open merge request. Pipelines on the default branch, on a branch without an open MR, on tags, or from schedules — the bulk of many projects — slipped through. Some repositories looked empty even though GitLab was building away.

That's fixed now: every GitLab pipeline appears in the view, whether or not there's an open merge request for it. A run now shows

• the branch or tag and the trigger (e.g. push, tag, schedule),
• a PR chip only when a merge request is actually linked.

The history gets more complete, too: the daily background sync now pulls in recent project pipelines, not just MR-scoped ones. So the view fills up even for repositories whose webhook was set up later.

Nothing changes for GitHub and Bitbucket — their runs appear as before.

Duplicating permission groups

Clicking a new group together from scratch when an existing one already almost fits was needlessly tedious. It's faster now.

Under Settings → Permission Groups, every group card gets a Duplicate action — including the read-only system groups. The copy

• carries over permissions, description, color, and type,
• gets an automatically unique name (with a numeric suffix on a name collision),
• opens straight in the edit form so you can adjust it right away.

Members as well as the default and system status are not copied — the copy is always a fresh, editable custom group.

Linked tickets now show their status

Small but noticeable improvement: linked tickets used to show only a colored status dot — telling "Done" from "In Progress" was pure color-reading.

Now the status shows as text next to the dot (in the calm badge style: neutral text, color only via the dot). And the title is free to use the full row and is only shortened when there's genuinely no room left — instead of being hard-clipped at 200px. The read-only subtickets reuse the same badge, so links and subtickets read consistently.

In short

• Time & Budget for customers at /time-budget: tracked time per ticket, budget status, and pending approvals with one-click Approve/Reject — unlocked by the customer-overview:view permission.
• All GitLab pipelines now appear, not just merge-request ones — including branch/tag, trigger, and a more complete history.
• Duplicate permission groups under Settings → Permission Groups, system groups included; the copy opens straight for editing.
• Linked tickets and subtickets show their status as text and allow longer titles.