Make linked issues to this project from closed FOSS issues more pronounced in the GitLab bot message posted earlier

This came up in our Community Relations Group Conversation today. Many people are still confused on where to go for their moved issues. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zELoftrommhRdnEOAocE6jea6w7KngUDjTUQBlMCNAU/edit#bookmark=id.dqxow5rmkgtp

A proposal we came up as a group was to edit the previous bot message and add a header and footer containing a message like

Moved to: Link to new issue

To be added on the top and bottom of the bot message with ---- line separator wrapping existing message or etc.

How to get this to work

  • Do we have information of linked issues stored somewhere or looked up easily?
  • Do we have ability to update previous bot messages?
  • Can we run a script to update only the issues where the bot updated earlier?

cc @gl-quality/eng-prod @marin @yorickpeterse @rpaik @dplanella

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