Email should send when someone else tries to merge an MR I author and it fails

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Problem

When someone besides the author of an MR sets it to merge (adds to the Merge Train or clicks Merge when Pipeline succeeds) and the pipeline fails the author is not notified only the person taking the action is.

Steps to reproduce

Consider the following scenario in GitLab:

• Person A submits a merge request.
• Person B approves the MR.
• The pipe triggered by the merge to master fails.

Expected Results

Person A and Person B should get notified (email, todo notification)

Actual Results

• Only person B gets notified.
• Person A needs to either manually track the status of the pipe or rely on person B to forward the failure notification.

Details

I didn't find a way to register/watch for notifications on specific pipes of interest like Jira allows watching issues (see the following screenshot).

The rationale is that as the developer, I'm in charge of following up pipe triggered following a merge to master.