Le 2025-01-25 19:02, Simon McVittie a écrit :
(I assume the Salsa admins do have a way to permanently redact a discussion thread that contains something illegal or abusive, if it becomes necessary.)
It is also possible for the creator of a merge request (and probably for the repository owners, and certainly for Salsa admins) to delete an entire merge request. There is just a confirmation warning suggesting other actions to avoid the loss of history. So by design this is not as future-proof as public ML archives that are captured in the Wayback Machine.
Another concern is that links to discussions may change, e.g. if the repository is moved or renamed (not sure of what happens when the repo is archived), or potentially with future releases of GitLab.
Yet another concern is that I don't think there is a way to split or merge projects (or move issues and merge requests with their entire discussion histories to other repositories). From experience, when this happens most maintainers are not going to care anyway and will just mass close issues and MRs.
Cheers, -- Julien Plissonneau Duquène
