Customise onboarding (Customise when: Gitpod release and Gitpod Walkthrough are shown)

[loujaybee]

Context
There are some cases where users might not want the changelog (for Open Source, and Self-Hosted, etc).

Use Cases

1. For optimised "onboarding" flows in Open-Source or Self-Hosted
2. When hopping hosts, Self-Hosted installs or onto SaaS (you will see a changelog multiple times)
3. When creating a custom onboarding flow into Gitpod in Self-Hosted - Self-Hosted customers often have a more "high-touch" onboarding into Gitpod than users on SaaS or in Open Source projects. The need for a self-serve onboarding is less relevant as these customers might choose to have literal in-person sessions with their users to onboard them.

Potential solutions

1. Improved heuristic for when release notes are shown, e.g.
   1. Don't show release notes for a new project the user is opening (to the user) - prioritise the onboarding experience of the project instead of Gitpod onboarding.
   2. Only to users who are new to Gitpod - prioritise Gitpod onboarding over the project onboarding.
2. Options for a user to disable entirely Release Notes for themselves
3. Options for disabling the Release Notes + Walkthrough on a per-project basis
4. Disable release notes or walkthrough on an installation level (e.g. a full Self-Hosted installation) where the company will take ownership of onboarding both into the project AND into Gitpod as a product

[Siddhant-K-code]

Also, worth noting that: Currently it shows release notes for every new workspace (it should be limited to the first workspace only, after every release)

Related Internal Discussion

[loujaybee]

Currently it shows release notes for every new workspace (it should be limited to the first workspace only, after every release)

This is a bug, not expected behaviour let's raise a separate issue 🙏

[Siddhant-K-code]

Opened a new issue here: #13638

[filiptronicek]

The options for disabling release notes altogether are here 🙂: both in VS Code Browser and VS Code Desktop. The configuration is "gitpod.showReleaseNotes": false. With Settings Sync, this should sync from VS Code Browser to Desktop and vice-a-versa.

cc @Siddhant-K-code @loujaybee