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Add a slash command /remind to remind me about an issue or MR

Description

Problem: there may be a MR or issue that I want shepherd / follow to completion but that either (a) has a lot of activity which overloads my inbox if I'm "subscribed" or (b) doesn't have a guarantee of being touched in a way that will tag me or create a todo for me.

Proposal

Slack has a great feature for this - slackbot reminders in the form of a slash command such as:

/remind [@someone or #channel] [what] [when]

A simpler iteration 1 style implementation for GitLab might be, on an issue or MR I say:

/remind me in 4 days

and then 4 days later a Todo is created for me.

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