Migrating old snippets to repositories commits using a random admin account
When a snippet-author no longer has access to the snippet, we create the initial commit in a background migration using an admin account: User.admins.active.first
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This might not be the right thing to do for some instances, should we perhaps do this using a newly created bot-account?
The following discussion from !29927 (merged) should be addressed:
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@reprazent started a discussion: (+3 comments) Creating the commits as a random admin might not be the best solution for this: For GitLab.com this would be
@jacobvosmaer-gitlab-admin
. Should we create a fixed user for this?