Sync naming of minimizing/removing/restricting/freezing/archiving/deleting content across source material, incidents, and projects

[noah-schechter]

The fact that this title carries any meaning is a problem. I'll use this sheet to propose an alternative naming schema: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VnxaWqQGQcLBe4uy1QwYY2nkV50W7jeKHbESKsOFhpw/edit#gid=0

[noah-schechter]

Current Right now we have several types of similar operations that occur at the levels of project, incident, and source material, all with different names:

• Projects:
  • Archiving a project keeps its data visible to all members but editable by only managers and owners. Only managers and owners can archive a project.
• Incidents:
  • In #834, I proposed deprecating removing and freezing.
  • Deleting an incident makes its data visible only to managers and owners; deleted incidents are not visible in platform searches. Only project managers and owners can delete incidents.
• Source material:
  • Minimizing source material keeps source material visible to all members but moves it to a separate part of the source material pane.
  • Removing source material makes its data visible only to managers and owners. Only project managers and owners can remove source material.

Proposed Assuming we also implement #834, the only change we need to make is renamed Remove to Delete. By renaming Remove, we communicate that the source material-level action is conceptually identical to the incident-level action.

One potential concern with this approach is that Deleting sounds destructive. While understandable, this shouldn't be a blocking concern about for two reasons:

• We can use tooltips (and users can use UI clues, like the existence of a Deleted page) to communicate that Deleted objects are still accessible to privileged users.
• We already made the decision to use the word "Delete" to communicate about a similar incident-level actions.

I'm not proposing making any change to the Archive term at the project level. It is conceptually distinct from deleting because it doesn't change the visibility of data to unprivileged users. One option would be to rename it Lock, but I think I prefer Archive.

[milesmcc]

Archiving a project keeps its data visible to all members but editable by only managers and owners. Only managers and owners can archive a project.

Managers and owners cannot edit data in archived projects.