Archiving projects
When you're working on a lot of projects, some of them might go stale after a while. To prevent this, if you have your GitLab filled with old projects, you can archive these projects.
An archived project is a read-only repository, which means that you cannot push new commits to it, but it is still possible to open issues for this repository.
In order to archive a project, you go to the project settings page and click on the Dangerous Settings option. This will expand a few more options. The first option is Archive project. Click on this button.
When you go to the project page now, you see a yellow block that tells you that the project has been archived, as shown in the following screenshot. If you need to work on this project, ...
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