Pending deletion on gitlab

[eperdeme]

What happened?

I attempted to delete a project via kubectl

kubectl delete -f gitlab-test.yaml

 Normal   DeletedExternalResource      4m29s (x20 over 7m32s)  managed/project  Successfully requested deletion of external resource

The project did not delete and the kubectl never returned retrying over and over to delete the project.

The project cannot be immediatly deleted as our group on Gitlab.com has restrictions that projects go in to a pending state for 7 days.
"Deletion pending. This project will be deleted on 2024-07-08. Repository and other project resources are read-only."

How can we reproduce it?

Tell Gitlab.com to not immediatly delete projects but to add a pending duration of X days before deleting.

What environment did it happen in?

Crossplane version: 1.14.0
Crossplane Provider GitLab version: v0.8.0

What can we do about this ? The control plane is just looping unless I guess I modify the finerliser but we can't do this each time? Is there an option in the provider to work around this ?