Rotate the CHANGELOG through the API

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Problem to solve

As a release manager, I need a way to automatically rotate the changelog when it sizes reaches a certain limit. (e.g. The GitLab UI can not render files larger than 1MB.)

Proposal

Extend the POST /projects/:id/repository/changelog endpoint with an optional argument that rotates the CHANGELOG.

TBD questions:

• where do we store the previous changelogs?
  • use a new attribute --archive with the path where the current changelog needs to be moved

Intended users

• Rachel (Release Manager)

Feature Usage Metrics

• monthly calls to the POST /projects/:id/repository/changelog API endpoint, we don't want to measure rotation usage separately