Importing issues with new labels should have them automatically created

Problem to solve

When importing a CSV of issues it's possible to include the /label ~bug list, however, if the labels don't already exist then they are skipped. It would be great if these new labels were automatically created, similar to how the API treats new labels when creating issues.

Intended users

• Parker (Product Manager)
• Delaney (Development Team Lead)
• Sasha (Software Developer)
• Devon (DevOps Engineer)
• Sidney (Systems Administrator)
• Simone (Software Engineer in Test)

User experience goal

The user should be able to upload issues via a CSV file and have new labels created automatically.

Testing this in a new project and I can't get new labels to be created. Reading the code - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/c086bd8f75537a7f73fc386f2053962b389dc990/app/services/issuable_base_service.rb#L94 - it looks like new labels should be created, although it seems this is never being called. I don't have a version of the GDK running locally but I will look at trying to get it running at some point so I can try and debug this.

mentioned in issue gitlab-org/quality/triage-reports#339 (closed)

mentioned in issue gitlab-org/quality/triage-reports#340 (closed)

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