Show npm package dist-tags in package UI (OD-3121)

Show npm package dist-tags in package UI #3121

Zak Siddiqui opened 10 hours ago

Problem

When publishing npm packages to the OneDev npm registry, dist-tags are correctly stored and resolvable via npm dist-tag ls, but they are not visible anywhere in the OneDev package UI.

The package page shows versions and their metadata, but there is no section showing which dist-tags (e.g. latest, dev-develop, dev-feature-branch) point to which versions.

Evidence

A build published @abc/[email protected] with tag dev-issue-1519-shared-codec-use-npm-dist-tags. The build log from npm dist-tag ls confirms three tags exist on the registry:

dev-develop: 1.1.1-20260914215547.0
dev-issue-1519-shared-codec-use-npm-dist-tags: 1.1.1-69fba31.0
latest: 1.1.1-20260914154602.0

The npm install @abc/shared-codec@dev-issue-1519-shared-codec-use-npm-dist-tags command also resolves correctly (11 packages installed).

However, when viewing the package in the OneDev UI, none of these dist-tags are shown. Users have no way to see which tags exist or which version each tag points to without CLI access.

Request

Add a dist-tags section to the package detail page in the OneDev UI that shows:

Tag name
The version each tag points to
When the tag was last updated

This would make the npm package management experience in OneDev comparable to other registries (e.g. npmjs.com shows dist-tags on the package versions tab).

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Service Desk commented 10 hours ago

OneDev currently does not display npm dist-tags in the package UI. The tags are stored on their target package versions and exposed through the npm registry API, which is why npm dist-tag ls <package> and installs by tag work correctly.

At present, OneDev stores only the current tag-to-version association; it does not persist a separate last-updated timestamp for each tag. Therefore the requested UI, especially the “last updated” value, would require a product enhancement and additional tag-history metadata rather than enabling an existing view.

For now, please use npm dist-tag ls <package> (or npm view <package> dist-tags) to inspect the current mappings.

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Zak Siddiqui commented 10 hours ago

@robin this is critical for us

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Robin Shen commented 5 hours ago

@zaakiy I am busy handling customer request and may not able to address this recently.

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Service Desk commented 5 hours ago

As the assignee, I am relevant to taking this enhancement forward, but I cannot prepare the implementation because the servicedesk account does not have write-code permission in onedev/server (the issue checkout failed with HTTP 403). Please grant the required permission or reassign the implementation to someone with repository write access.

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Zak Siddiqui commented 5 hours ago

@robin any chance you could give me access to cwh?

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Robin Shen commented 5 hours ago

@zaakiy sorry i cannot give access to cwh as it means to give user write access to the repository.

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OD-3121