BE: Allow users to delete comments that they authored within Design Management

Release notes

TBD by DRI

Problem to solve

When discussing design decisions, I want to convey my thoughts on a specific design, so that I may collaborate effectively with my teammates.

Users are currently not able to delete a comment they have authored within design management. This causes confusion and anxiety as authors expect to have control over their comments- and have this control within other areas in GitLab.

Intended users

• Parker (Product Manager)
• Delaney (Development Team Lead)
• Presley (Product Designer)
• Sasha (Software Developer)

User experience goal

Users have control over their communication in GitLab- and can remove comments they have contributed.

Proposal

For MVC, let's be consistent with comment options across GitLab. I think adding our overflow menu here would be helpful for this, and also solve some challenges I am seeing with that resolve icon placement.

• Add the ellipsis_v-icon icon to the comment menu, consistent with GitLab instances.
• Add the option to Delete comment from this menu.
  • Prompt a dialog to confirm deletion when the user chooses this.
• Future scope could be adding more options into this menu. For example, I think adding in the Copy link option would be both useful and help achieve parity.

Issue comments	(future) Design Manangement comments

Documentation

Availability & Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Users are able to delete comments they've authored (especially if they made an error).

• Tracking how many users are deleting comments- especially in relation to comments on other issueables - could be useful in understanding if users are having usability struggles with commenting in Design Management.
• Tracking if comments on designs are trending upward would help us understand how our improvements are impacting usage.

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