Revert "Merge branch 'show-issue-ownership-in-service-desk' into 'master'"
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This MR reverts another that caused a regression in the behavior of Service Desk.
The external_author
field on Issues aliases service_desk_reply_to
and should always be an email address. It is used in NotificationService.send_service_desk_notification
to avoid notifying the original author of an issue when new comments come in from themselves.
The user experience is that authors now have their own comments echoed back to themselves by email.
The MR reverted is !81207 (merged)
Reverting this MR will not be enough to prevent the issue continuing with Service Desk issues created while the code was in production but will prevent further issues being created with this bug. It's an annoyance rather than a broken feature and a migration can be written in future to repair the broken external_author
field.
See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/355761
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