Eliminate Confusion around editing optional Approval Rules in MR

Release notes

In the past you've noticed that our default approval rules (Optional Approval) still showed up when editing an MR. Now we are much clearer about the difference between standard and optional approval rules and don't bother you showing optional approval rules when editing MRs in projects that have them.

Problem to solve

Users are confused about the display of approval rules when editing MRs, when those approval rules are optional.

Intended users

User experience goal

Proposal

Don't display optional approval rules when presented with options to edit approval rules (specifically in the MR widget) and default to some other empty state content that displays that there are no required approval rules setup for the project.

Further details

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Availability & Testing

Available Tier

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

Is this a cross-stage feature?

Links / references

• Initial Slack discussion