Project URL is not slugified for GitLab repos

[bigint]

Bug description

Here is how the URL looks like https://gitpod.io/projects/Timesheet%20Remainder

Steps to reproduce

• Create new GitLab Repo with the name Gitpod Test
• Connect it to Gitpod projects
• Open the project and check the URL

Expected behavior

https://gitpod.io/projects/timesheet-remainder

It should take the GitLab repo slug instead of the name

[bigint]

/cc @gtsiolis the GitLab expert 😄

[gtsiolis]

Thanks for bringing this up @bigint! This makes sense!

Looping in @jankeromnes and @AlexTugarev who also brought up this issue in a recent discussion (internal).

[jankeromnes]

Nice catch! Thanks for reporting this @bigint (and thanks @gtsiolis for pointing me to it when I also complained about this 😁).

I believe the current situation is:

• There is only project.name, which is used in URLs and displayed in the UI
• For GitHub projects, we import the slug as project.name
• For GitLab projects, we import the full-text name as project.name

Instead, it would be better to:

• Have a (new) specific project.slug property for URLs (similar to team.slug) in addition to the existing project.name (which can be all nice with capital letters, spaces, varied characters, etc)
• For GitHub projects, import both the slug and the full-text name
• Same as above for GitLab

[JanKoehnlein]

I think this is not needed for the launch. Let's bring this up later

[JanKoehnlein]

/schedule

[roboquat]

@JanKoehnlein: Issue scheduled in the meta team (WIP: 0)

In response to this:

/schedule

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[laushinka]

/assign