Allow Maintainers to merge without approval
I'd like to request a way for certain users (specifically users with Role: Maintainer) to be exempt from Merge Request Approval requirements, or, to be able to override these rules.
Business case: Small team with 2 senior developers and 8 junior devs. Right now, senior devs are Maintainer, all others are Masters. Senior devs can approve merge requests but if they are unavailable, the testing team may be blocked waiting for them to approve a request. The team would be happy to accept 2 or 3 junior reviews when pushing to master for testing, but if a minimum of 3 approvers is set, then senior devs can no longer continue to approve merge requests on their own.
#3007 is similar, and might provide the functionality I'm looking for (I am not clear... it migth not)