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Allow assigning reviewers as community contributor

Kev requested to merge KevSlashNull/gitlab-triage-ops:Allow-assigning-reviewers-as-community-contributor into master

What does this MR do and why?

This adds a @gitlab-bot command to allow community contributors to freely assign a reviewer. This is very useful in cases where the community contributor knows a suitable reviewer (such as from previous work in the same group or the handbook).

I’ve experienced it multiple times where I was asked to assign a GitLab team member as a reviewer, which I can’t do as community contributor. But I'd like to do it because it speeds up the time to the first (but also subsequent ones) review. Sometimes mentions get lost but assignment as reviewer is less ephemeral.

Expected impact & dry-runs

These are strongly recommended to assist reviewers and reduce the time to merge your change.

See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/quality/triage-ops/-/tree/master/doc/scheduled#testing-with-a-dry-run on how to perform dry-runs.

Action items

  • (If applicable) Add documentation to the handbook pages for Triage Operations =>
  • (If applicable) Identify the affected groups and how to communicate to them:
    • /cc @person_or_group =>
    • Relevant Slack channels =>
    • Engineering week-in-review
Edited by Kev

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