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Block user contribution reassignment to admin users

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This issue came from this discussion https://gitlab.com/gitlab-sirt/shared-incidents/incident_5529/-/issues/62#note_2014390138.

Proposal

Imported user contributions should not be mapped to admin users on .com. These are users who are User.admin? (being verified in #474963 (comment 2021409550)).

We will add a new application setting. The application setting should be added to the Settings > General, Import and export settings section:

Toggle "Allow contributions to be mapped to admin users" - off by default everywhere, on .com and SMs, as it's more secure state.

We will add documentation for:

Edited by Magdalena Frankiewicz