Make role Code Owner work for non-direct members

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Proposal

The current implementation of the "new" Code Owner @@role feature requires users to be a direct member of the project.

For LDAP/SAML setups this is often not the case since permissions are given on a group level and might even be locked to it.

Please make the @@role Code Owner feature available for non-direct project members.

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