Evaluate potential of migrating to webpacker

Currently gitlab is using a gem webpack-rails which is not maintained anymore:
https://rubygems.org/gems/webpack-rails https://github.com/mipearson/webpack-rails

It is suggested to use webpacker instead:
https://github.com/mipearson/webpack-rails/issues/90

Are there any plans to change to webpacker?

FreeBSD warns me, that webpack-rails will be remove by end of this year from the repository:
https://www.freshports.org/www/rubygem-webpack-rails/