[META] Use the GraphQL API for the Merge Request Widget

The Merge Request widget currently needs all of this information: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/snippets/1716388

In order to use GraphQL for that we'll need to address several issues:

Follow up from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/34754 (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/19008)

Edited by Bob Van Landuyt