Add Github information to the footer

[jonespm]

It would be useful for admins to be able to see some information about when this instance was updated. In MyLA this was added to the footer only for admins. https://github.com/tl-its-umich-edu/my-learning-analytics/pull/284/files

I think this is probably fine to leave this restriction. We could probably also put it somewhere else like in Django Admin? Not sure we have to spend a lot of time on it.

This was using git to pull the version, maybe there's an easier way to get that information into the build, like through the Github Action?

[jadfalaoui]

Hello, I would love to work on this issue in the context of my final assignment for EECS 481: Software Engineering. Please let me know if this is still a feature you would like to see implemented!

[jonespm]

Yes, this is still something we'd like.

In another project with the linked PR we used git rev-parse to save the version to a flat file during the build process. There's possibly other ways to accomplish this but this is the most straightforward. Most likely that script should also clean up the unnecessary git command after it's used.

[jadfalaoui]

Hi @jonespm, I've been running tests for a few hours and there doesn't seem to be a point in the docker compose sequence where it is running inside a git repository, although it works when defining the environment variable before composing. I'm curious to know if this is the case in general or if my environment was set up incorrectly.