Increase visibility that merge request approval rules are not retrospective
From a comment:
There are only two instances where I've seen a rule not show up before:
The MR was created before the rule was created and the new rule isn't applied to the MR (cos' reasons
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If you add a new approval rule it might not affect your current merge requests. The visibility of that behaviour should be increased when you add a new approval rule on this page: