Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 22nd May

Benjamin Berg <[email protected]> Sat, 26 May 2018 13:22:04 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 18:55 -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Benjamin Berg 
> <[email protected]> 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?
> > 
> > Benjamin
> 
> There 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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