Allow Maintainer and Owners to Override Merge Request Approvers

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Problem to Solve

Currently GitLab only supports a single setting which allows approval rules to be modified on a per merge request basis. This setting is either all users or no users can modify approval rules for the MR.

Because of this, most users don't allow overriding to prevent developers from merging unapproved changes. However, in some cases it can be desirable for Owners and Maintainers to have the permissions to bypass rules and merge changes.

Proposal

The setting to allow overriding approval rules should be able to be scoped to roles so that it could be configured to allow for Owners to modify rules or Owners and Maintainers to modify rules.