Not clear why issue is closed if it has been moved to another project

• When an issue is "moved" to another project, what happens behind the scenes is that it is copied to the target project and the original issue is closed.
• This may be confusing and not clear, e.g.: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3364#note_27836699.
• We should retain the moved system icon even if we change the system note here to be closed in the language. Because a person who sees an issue is closed from the state of it will review the system notes to see what happened, and quickly glance near the bottom and can see the moved icon.

Scope

• Update the system note of the issue that is closed to be: Victor Wu @victorwu closed via moving to gitlab-ee#1984 4 weeks ago
• The system note in the newly created issue should not be changed.

Reference

/gitlab/app/services/system_note_service.rb contains the line for this.

@smcgivern @tauriedavis : Thoughts?

mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#3364 (closed)

I like your suggestion for the updated system note copy and I agree that I still think the move icon makes sense

Yep, sounds like a good idea to me. This will only update the note text for new system notes that do this, though

Thats okay, still an improvement :)

Also, the newly created issue has a system note. It says:

@victorwu moved from gitlab-ce#3364 [closed] 4 weeks ago

I think we should leave that alone.

added Accepting Merge Requests in GitLab FOSS label

added feature proposal in GitLab FOSS label

mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#31587 (moved)

From https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31587, i had a few suggestions on how it could be implemented :

(Sorry i only have MSPAINT )

When commenting

I would recommend that when an issue is moved, to indicate it directly bellow the CLOSED status.

Warning on the text input field.

moved to example/123

Other ideas:

Sorry, only have mspaint ! Add a text line bellow ?

When trying to re-open a close issue

I dont know if it should be a separate issue, but a warning should be displayed when we try to re-open a MOVED issue

Thanks @Sadortun for the designs. That can be a separate issue. The design here is the smallest change to make an improvement and we always make the smallest change possible. Thanks!

I've reopened @Sadortun's issue

@tauriedavis agreed. I will be very happy with a simple solution. My issue is valid only of keeping a CLOSE status is desirable. I hope a more elegant solution would be possible ,!

mentioned in issue gitlab-com/support-forum#1774 (closed)

changed milestone to %Next 2-3 months in gitlab-foss

moved from gitlab-foss#31223 (moved)