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Add exemptions for certain policies for issues with particular workflow labels

Mark Fletcher requested to merge markglenfletcher/gitlab-ce:limit-scope-issue-closing-policies into gl-triage

What does this MR do?

Excludes issues labelled with ~"Accepting Merge Requests" and ~"technical debt" from auto closure.

Why? We're OK with these issues being left open for longer and currently removing the labels from these issues add to the workload.

Why are we OK with this?

  • ~"technical debt" issues are usually created at the time of development to circle back on later
  • This doesn't always happen so we should have another rule to nudge authors of ~"technical debt" issues
  • https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/45177
  • ~"Accepting Merge Requests" are open to the Community to contribute. These issues are usually small and not impactful but may not be picked up for implementation for a while

Related issues

Close https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44747, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44746

/cc @rymai @meks

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