Gitlab Merge Request Approvals - Assistance Needed

[Ben Cooksley]

Good morning community,

As you'll all be aware, KDE is currently in the process of migrating
to Gitlab. As part of that process, several features that were only
part of the paid version of Gitlab were identified as being necessary
for our workflows.

For one of these, Merge Request Approvals, approval has been granted
for a move of this feature from the paid version to the open source
version of Gitlab. This move is subject to the limitation that the
open source version be limited to optional approvals only, with
mandatory approvals remaining a paid only feature. Given that the KDE
Community conducts development on the basis that "everyone can push to
everywhere" this is more than suitable for our purposes and matches
what we have currently with Phabricator.

More details on this can be found at the upstream task -
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/27426

The only catch with this (which is where the community here comes in)
is that they don't have the developer time to arrange for the
necessary code changes for this change to be put through.

Is anyone in our (wider) community interested and able to work on this?

Thanks,
Ben Cooksley
KDE Sysadmin