Specify confidentiality of discussion in email updates

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Proposal

To reduce the cognitive load that comes from fear arising when someone makes an internal-only comment on an issue via email but from the email you're not able to quickly deduce if the comment was made in a way that exposes it to the public, GitLab ought to improve the description of how a comment was shared within a discussion.

Currently, there are three different types of conversations:

1. Public comments on an issue
2. Internal notes on an issue
3. Comments on a confidential issue (which implies the comments are also confidential)

Additionally, issues could be within a private or internal project.

☝️ Current state

Ideas:

This would be when the discussion is on a thread marked as internal only.

This would be when the issue is marked as confidential.