Commit author to link to GitLab profile rather than mailto: link
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Proposal
When the author does not have a GitLab profile display the email address along with the author name
If the user adds this email to their profile and verifies it then the author link should be just the name and clicking on it would link to their GitLab profile.
Background / Original proposal
In the commit view and repository view, clicking on the author's name or avatar opens up a default mailing application because its a mailto: link. This happens in some cases - but not others.
Conversely, in the merge request view and other areas, clicking on an author's name or avatar opens up their GitLab profile link.
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I propose that clicking on an author's name or avatar should uniformly open their GitLab profile link, as it does in the merge request example.
If there is an issue matching the author of a commit to a profile (i.e. no match on email or name from commit -> profile), there should be a visual cue that the link won't be to the profile, or just don't have a clicklable link at all (this is how GitHub appears to handle this).
