Make a group a CODEOWNER without having to share the project with the group

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Problem to solve

Currently, you will need to manually share a project with a group, in order to specify a group as a Code Owner.

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Since CODEOWNERS requires the approver group be shared, that means that when a user creates a new project, there's a secondary manual step (or else we need to create additional automation outside of GitLab). If a project provisioner misses that step, then the end user can merge MRs without approval for those restricted files (despite what CODEOWNERS says), which in some customers' workflow represents a security/compliance issue.

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