Remove Assignees from merge requests and replace with author
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Problem to Solve
The Assignees field in merge requests doesn't serve a clear purpose in combination with Reviewers. Is that field supposed to be the author? Is that person(s) supposed to provide an approval? Does that person ultimately merge the MR? In some cases the lack of distinction with reviewers has made it so some teams don't adopt reviewers.
Proposal
We should remove the Assignees field from merge requests and replace the field with Authors. Authors should be automatically populated by users who author or commit changes to the merge request. This gives a clear indication of the role those people are playing and leaves reviewers to serve the review functionality of code review.
Additional Details
The Reviewers field in merge requests is where additional functionality related to code review is continuing to be added. Things like:
- Suggested Reviewers
- Re-Request Review
- Approval Indications