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Docs: test for outdated GitLab versions

Amy Qualls requested to merge docs-aqualls-flag-outdated-lines into master

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This Vale test looks for references to GitLab versions so old they are no longer supported, and flags them at the warning level. (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/policy/maintenance.html)

It's worth @gl-docsteam discussing what kind of historical data we want to keep, but at the same time, how truly valuable is it to know that a feature was first released in GitLab 4 or 5, now that we are at version 13?

(Spoiler - there is a mention of GitLab 2 somewhere in the docs.)

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