Deprecations 16.0
We have announced deprecations in 15.7 and 15.8:
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/108745+
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/108502+
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/108507+
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/106369+
The related features need to be removed/changed in 16.0 and related documentation removed/updated.
For each deprecation we need to:
* [x] Announce deprecation in 15.8 - issues listed above
* [x] Update documentation with deprecation warnings:
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/108745+
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/109101+
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/109097+
* [x] Remove links to deprecated feature and remove topics from global navigation
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-docs/-/merge_requests/3452+
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/109291+
* [x] Update Importers category direction page - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_requests/117987+
* [x] [Announcement of removal](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/release-posts/#removals-and-breaking-changes) in 16.0.
* [x] Remove the related code and documentation in 16.0 from codebase - issues in this epic
* [x] For https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/108745+ update code in 16.0 - issue in this epic
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