Custom project templates in Private projects requires specific roles

Summary

The documentation describes as following:

Private projects can be selected only by users who are members of the projects

However, actual behavior is: the user need to have Developer or higher role to use template.

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up group-level project templates
2. Create a project by user who has Developer or higher role to template → A user can create a project by using template
3. Create a project by user who has lower role → A user can not select template

Example Project

• Group:

  • https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-silver/kkamiya-test

  

  • https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-silver/kkamiya-test/413068test

• Template: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-silver/kkamiya-test/template/-/group_members

• This user can replicate this issue: https://gitlab.com/kkamiya_gl_test

  

• This user can create the project by using template: https://gitlab.com/kkamiya_gl

  

What is the current bug behavior?

• Documentation says: Private projects can be selected only by users who are members of the projects
• Actual behavior: the user need to have Developer or higher role to use template

What is the expected correct behavior?

I can not decide if the documentation is correct (bug) or actual behavior is correct (miss in documentation).

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

These MR may relate to this behavior.

• !100916 (merged)
• !102487 (merged)

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Possible fixes