Fork a role

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Problem to solve

We've discussed fully custom roles in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12736. Fully-definable custom roles introduces a significant amount of complexity to GitLab, but the need still exists for better granularity and control over what users can/can't do in the product.

Proposal

• An instance admin should be able to fork a role.
  • Forking a role creates another role at that permissions level, with the default features and abilities available at that level.
  • In the purposes of GitLab's permissions hierarchy (Guest => ... => Owner), the new role will be considered at the same level of the role it was forked from.
• I should be able to specify a custom name for my role (Ops Engineer).
• I should be able to toggle features that are available to the role.

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