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Deprovisioning

What is deprovisioning at GitLab?

Deprovisioning is the removal of users and projects that are no longer actively used at GitLab.

Deprovisioning gitlab account

User restriction

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User accounts will be blocked after a period of inactivity.

  • Days of inactivity before deactivation: 12 months

  • A blocked user can also activate their account themselves by logging in to GitLab at KIT again only via the web interface.

  • Other users can still see this blocked user's posts and contributions in the project or group.

  • The user will receive a warning email about deactivation and planned deletion of the account after a further waiting period of another 3 months.

User deletion

Users whose account is already deactivated will be deleted after a period of deactivation.

  • If the user is no longer active in the next 3 months, the account in GitLab will be deleted

  • Delete a user and his/her contribution in the project and also groups of which he/she is the only group owner.

  • When deleting users, all contributions e.g., merge requests, issues, wikis in the project will be assigned to the “ghost user”.

Deprovisioning projects

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Inactive projects will be automatically deleted.

  • How to determine when a project was last active : the date of activitiy on the project by any members of project (owener, maintainers, developers and guests)

  • A warning email will be sent to maintainers after the project is inactiv for 12 months

  • After waiting further 3 months, the project is scheduled for deletion, i.e. 15 months later the project repository will be deleted completely.