Revert Enable Special References for Vulnerabilities
What does this MR do?
This MR reverts the following MRs related to taking the "+" symbol as a reference prefix for Vulnerabilities (#222483 (closed))
Reverted changes
- Resolve problem with rendering thumbsup emoji
- Enable Special References for Vulnerabilities
- Use backend filtering to autocomplete vulnerabilities
- Add + as a special reference for to GFM Autocomplete
Remaining changes
Rationale: Reverting this will not bring any problems and introduces more noise. Instead I only removed methods related to references
Rationale: This doesn't interfere with any existing functionallity and we will leverage this independently of the chosen reference prefix
The decision to revert the functionallity was made in #264441 (comment 429187245)
Related issues:
- #264441 (closed) - Decision to revert
- #267347 (closed) - Vulnerability reference prefix interferes with emojis
- #222483 (closed) - Enable Special References for Vulnerabilities
Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?
Conformity
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Separation of EE specific content
Availability and Testing
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Review and add/update tests for this feature/bug. Consider all test levels. See the Test Planning Process. -
Tested in all supported browsers -
Informed Infrastructure department of a default or new setting change, if applicable per definition of done
Security
If this MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization and authentication methods and other items described in the security review guidelines:
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Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec -
The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods -
Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team
Related to #264441 (closed)
Edited by Michał Zając