Add clarification that top navigation requires UX maintainer approval
Why is this change being made?
There have been some situations where a change to the main navigation is debated in the merge request. As these are high-impact areas, a deep debate and discussion/research is needed before allowing any change in those areas. This MR adds that guidance to the handbook.
Additional context can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KObJ3f-NwR1aMTM2qSbGN__tf9atldLD300bE_8YYJc/edit Related merge request that needed to be closed and where this guidance would have been helpful to have in advance is gitlab-org/gitlab!104244 (comment 1181703146)
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Edited by Nick Veenhof