On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 18:55 -0500, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Benjamin Berg <benjamin sipsolutions net> wrote:Will you make such an offer? If not, is there any reason to not make this offer in the future and in this case? BenjaminThere is a good reason not to allow this: it would be sabotague of project history. In a small case, it might be harmless, but if it's a core developer, imagine the potential damage to GNOME if hundreds or thousands of comments were to disappear from bug reports.
That is a good point and a valid concern. The mentioned corner case is interesting and quite a clear indication that the Foundation/Project has a large interest to prevent in bulk modification of comments.
I hope GitLab has a time limit as to how far back posts can be edited, to prevent this.
Interesting, I doubt that such "archival" of posts is done though. If it is done, then I would say that the old precedence is fully applicable to such archived posts, and the rejection of requests is generally reasonable. Maybe one should discuss the idea of such a time limit with Gitlab? Benjamin
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