New project dropdown list missing namespaces

Summary

When clicking New Project from the homepage, there are some namespaces/groups missing from the dropdown list under Project URL section.

Initially discovered via a self-managed ZD ticket (internal link only).

Steps to reproduce

1. Navigate to gitlab.com
2. Click New Project.
3. Click Create blank project.
4. Under Project URL, click the drop-down list.

What is the current bug behavior?

Some namespaces are missing from the drop-down list under Project URL.

What is the expected correct behavior?

All namespaces a user belongs to are listed in the drop-down list under Project URL.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

Output of checks

This bug happens on GitLab.com

Possible workarounds

1. Navigate to the desired namespace manually, example gitlab-gaming.
2. Click New Project.

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This behaviour seems to only be seen when you are not a direct member of the group (members via group invitation) and it still seen on GitLab.com

Ultimate customer still report this issue (self-managed 14.10), currently they must use the workaround (use of the custom URL which contains the namespace/group ID : https://gitlab.example.com/projects/new?namespace_id=101).

ZD link

@johnhope Hello, (Sorry if I wrongly tagged you) This issue is currently tagged as a bug and has currently no Milestone. Is it something that will be consider to be fix in a future release? Thank you.

@sbouly Just from the last people to work on this frontend query I think you have the right group anyway!

When you say

not a direct member of the group

Do you refer to subgroups where membership is inherited via membership of a parent group? Or does

(members via group invitation)

mean shared membership?

/cc @donaldcook

@johnhope Hello, sorry for the lack of clarity. Yes I meant shared membership. Thank you

@sbouly Thanks, passing over to @gweaver for prioritization.

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@donaldcook this seems to be related to a plethora of other bugs with group sharing -- &5791. It seems as though we have not reached a consistent, standard method for dealing with this. What are your thoughts on how to proceed here? Do we need to collab with ~"group::authentication and authorization"?

Not sure if that would fall under ~"group::authentication and authorization" or ~"group::workspace".

@jarka @mksionek are there plans on either of your teams to start working through &5791, or thinking after the namespaces work?

I think this is ~"group::workspace"

/cc @mksionek

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