IssueCardWeight had a hardcoded anchor tag which is not needed
in the Epic's related issues list. This change adds a functionality
to let IssueCardWeight decide which tag to render. This functionality
is backward compatible and defaults to anchor tag.

Sort list of predefined variables in alphabetical order

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23834

Sort list of predefined variables in alphabetical order

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!8861

Backfill project_repositories for legacy storage projects

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23920

Compress images

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23902

Compress images

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!8901

Adds a background migration that will ensure all projects that
are on legacy storage have a row in `project_repositories`.

Add a missing policy allowance in GroupPolicy

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23906

Geo - Gitlab::Geo should not serialize ActiveRecord objects

Closes #8827

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!8802

Reduce diff with CE in SelectsHelper

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!8904

Load the devise initializer before metrics

Closes #55513

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23907

Reduce diff with CE in ProtectedRefsController

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!8896

Reduce diff with EE in ProtectedRefsController

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23885

Update documentation to reflect that the ops dashboard supports public projects

Closes #8444

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!8710

Update/secpick

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23900

Extract EE-specific code from GroupMemberPolicy

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!8907

Remove feature flag for suggest changes feature

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23892

Metrics tries to initialize the `EventsFinder` to instrumnt it. The `EventsFinder` tries to load the `Event` model, which in turn loads the `User` model.

Loading the `User` model requires Devise to be initialized. So to avoid problems around this, we load devise before loading metrics.

This change the write to accept an options hash to make
it compatible with ActiveSupport::Cache::Store#write
method.

The options hash are not passed to the underlying cache
implementation because RequestStore#write accepts only
a key, valye params.

The Gitlab::Geo::Cache is a utility class that
can be reused outside of the Geo context.

We should avoid putting binary ActiveRecord objects in the cache.
This changes introduces a new cache Gitlab::Geo::Cache that writes
a string containing a JSON representation of the objects to the
cache, and parses the cached value back when requested.

Passing an argument to force an association to reload is now deprecated

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23894

Mention how to promote an issue to an epic

Closes #8860

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!8905

Merge branch '53020-user-specific-profile-page-settings-fields-don-t-have-help-text-placeholders' into 'master'

Add explanatory help text to text inputs on user profile settings page

Closes #53020

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23673